Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; (802) 324-9538.
It’s sunset
Sela Morgenstein Fuerst, 12, South Burlington
Step outside.
The breeze is blowing
wisps of cirrus cloud.
The sky is blue,
the geese are leaving.
Farewell,
we say,
and don’t mean it.
Mean it, please, for once.
The turning leaves will thank you.
The frost has come
quietly along, its hands bound.
Cut it free.
Run your hands through the asters,
the goldenrod…
through the sunlight at the end of the street,
always just around the bend.