In an effort to get people to look at me more I will become swan-like: a not-of-this-earth petal soft celestial body. I will shine like a pitchfork candelabra and puncture the sky to live forever the way a constellation does. In an effort to get people to look at me more I will take the pierced blue-black sky, and shake the stars into dew that drop drop drops against each blade of grass. So when you walk outside in the morning, after the sun has long since chased the moon out of the sky, you will have no choice but to look for me.
There, glistening like crushed stars against your feet.
Adeline Gerrard lives in Cincinnati, OH where she pursues her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Cincinnati. Adeline strives to become an educator who inspires students to use their writing to explore their unique identities and histories. When she is not writing, dreaming, or doom-scrolling on the Internet, she is taking pictures of the Pleiades in her backyard.
