Torrent

The cover image was drawn by Mo Koelle as part of our collaboration with the MHS Youth Arts Movement Club

I walk into the rain

On nostalgic days of dim.

As soon as the trumpet plays,

My feet begin to skim

The puddles of the schoolyard

That catch pouring tears.

Then from the open grounds

Return imagined fears.

They unearth feelings of abandonment,

And past anxieties that I recall.

I wish to atone for missteps

I made in the rainfall.

But wish as I might,

My loneliness is immutable

Since the body’s all grown up

And the mind is juvenile.