The Walls Were Not Big Enough to Hold You: Foyle Young Poets Commended Anthology 2018

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Edie Michael Toby I want to tell you the story of why we should get a round of applause for smiling when it doesn’t go with our outfits or your slappable face. Let’s doodle round the holes in our paper and tap patterns into the silence. You make me want to condition your hair at 1.22am. You make me want to run through trains and whistle with braces and pick up the sun, pat it dry, and hand it to you. I’ve never not worried about you, the way tears won’t stain your orange peel cheeks scares me. You make me want to smell the miscellaneous clouds in the weight of the words you gave me.

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