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How Dark It Is (In the style of Brian turner “How Bright It Is”)

May 8, 2023
By oliviaheim SILVER, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
oliviaheim SILVER, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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Winter. And the winds cold

As the fur of a polar bear. 


Birds land at the bird feeder,

Pecking their beaks with huge wings

Swaying out in front of cars

In zero degree weather, dodging a bullet.


The citizens don’t walk the streets anymore,

Seeing only damage of the storm,

Bodies covered in layers, and the sky, how dark it is, how empty and quiet.


It will take many days from the community

To bring back the shine, which affects each and everything.

The wreckage buildings of the town, their loving homes,

Their now broken so freezing, in the darkness.


-Olivia Heim



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