The Sun Is Also a Star

Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography

Don’t let you pride get the better of you, Tasha.

Hope” is the thing with feathers

I remind myself that stars are more than just poetic. If you need to, you can navigate your way by them.

The young man in 7A peers over the top of the seat.

his arms across his chest.

can’t see how run-down everything is.

nudge him with my shoulder.

Maybe I’m being shortsighted.

because he can’t see past his own history to let us have ours.