Summer’s Infestation - Emily Rose Neves

The girl is

not allowed outside

on warm days.

For the swarms of noise

that gather in bunches

run through the summer haze.

In the night,

during any clandestine night,

the girl looks out a window. There are bugs,

but they are quiet. Think about being young—

you are given the opportunity to run,

don’t you take it? Your window is open, won’t you jump? The girl,

goes outside on a warm day.

She is devoured.

The Lesson:

If you give a girl scissors,

she will spend the rest of her life

chasing red ribbons.

BIOGRAPHY:

Emily Rose Neves is 22, and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence. She runs her own literary magazine called Nebulous, which is dedicated to dreams - you can see more here. She is also a computational artist, which you can see more of on her blog.