List Poem, Hannah Poley

I am

by HM Poley

I am from Steep wooden staircase and the smell of old farmhouse mixed with sweet summer air.

I am from a family with cats who were busy in the kitchen.  I made ginger cookies, Chicken and rice, valentino’s pizza with tiny messy hands.

I am from Escondido, Lincoln, Artas, Herreid, Freeman, Parker, Eagle, and Phoenixville

California, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Pennsylvania where I made my home.

I am from worlds undiscovered in book pages, where magic lives and waiting for my Hogwarts letter.

I am from old farms and pumpkin patches, apple orchards and red wagons.

I am from loneliness and broken friendships

Parents hurting, lives transforming.

I am from hard decisions and painful moments, innocence and youth turned grey to quickly.

Ugly fighting always hiding, scared of who I was becoming.

I am from redemption

All the bad turned beautiful.