Come meet our cast of characters, longer than I can list.
Two girls leap over fighting fields.
They will rarely meet,
both trailing a path long forgotten.
Let’s think of each other.
(Do you read stories about me?)
My, and your, imagination man.
Let’s howl and stomp our feet.
Maybe he’ll come inside, sit down,
drink from the fuzzy bushes,
and show us how to sing.
Some cats.
Please never cross the street and please
never stop me.
They don’t make it.
His family’s splattered rooms.
Not the people (not anymore),
but the place.
So much potential for three young students.
Praise us more, we’d think.
My bed or yours?
Our sheets use the same detergent,
but mine always take longer to clean.
(Will you do them for me?)
A book I’ll never finish.
An immortal staring back,
her words reaped from her mouth by my hands.
I’m too scared to kill her off.
You hate me a little for it.
Should we continue?
Carly Jane (she/her) is a junior at PSU studying psychology. She recently won the Mihelcic Poetry Award. ln her free time, she hangs out with her four cats: Pearl, Beatrix, Dean, and Sammy.