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Our poet this week writes: “My name is Kadrianna Letts I am a sophomore at Endicott College. My major is Communication Sciences and Disorders. I play soccer here at Endicott. I was born and raised in Beverly Massachusetts and I am a current resident. I like to write about the simple things in life; it interests me to see how much detail I can go into about the little things that we miss in life.”

A Bottle of Disappointment

Kadrianna Letts

Sun

peering

through

my curtains

Saying

hello to me

before

I’d like to meet it

Vision

blurry

Reaching

for the Poland Springs

with

its forest so rich

so dense

And

waterfall, aquarium blue

threaded

with silver satin

The

skin on my lips

the

ground following a 7.0 earthquake

Sahara

Desert

Drought

Intense

thirst

dominating

all my senses

A young

girl anxiously awaits

her

new toy

Suddenly

swallowed

by disappointment

The

bottle looked me

straight

in the eye

It chuckled

Abandoned

Empty

Recycled

No longer

my slave

Now

free

to travel

the world

— Kadrianna Letts

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