Green

By Eliza Rosenthale

2020 Winter Showcase Poetry Award Winner

 

Green is my hand twitching over the paper. It is the high after a good cry. A deep breath. Green is making yourself breakfast. It is running into an old friend. It is a new pair of shoes. A first date in June. It is calling your mother on the walk home to tell her about it. Green is children observing but not following. It is no sense of direction, but it is the capacity to continue climbing.

Green is all of us, undressed.

 

 

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Bio:

Eliza Rosenthale is a student in the Rutgers class of 2023, studying Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. She is from Pennington, NJ, and she loves to read, write, paint, and spend time in New Jersey native wildlife. Both her poems, “Shame” and “Green,” were included in the poetry category of the Winter Creativity Showcase.