The Lonely Dell
Only one weed seeds
in the lonely dell
slurping up the
rain water. Also,
the listening tree
stands at the edge,
hearing and seeing
and feeling but
she asked why her words were drowned when.
The wind wailed.
A blade of grass grew
from one grain of dirt,
and thought only of flight
(but couldn’t move their legs).
A cattail sprouted out
of a single puddle and
got every ray of sunlight
(but never saw lily) Then,
one small stone sailed
to the bottom of the hill,
stranded and lost,
covered in moss. He, cried out for hours but
the wind just wailed.
Evereemail
Used to use email,
then I chose evereemail,
postal service for every need.
I get drinks through teamail,
order lumber from treemail,
no charge for freemail,
delivery in good speed.
Summoned through decreemail,
got books through storeemail,
apologized on sorreemail,
with a money back guarantee.
found a pet on bunneemail,
got a joke on funneemail,
got motivated on sunneemail.
Got my bill through monneemail,
and when I saw it
thought, “Should I get glasses from seemail?”
I can’t unsubscribe to evereemail,
cause it’s such a crappeemail,
forced to sell things on flea mail,
in order to pay off my feemail.
A Thought
a thought) never begins it just,
like the universe, exists and no one
pays it any attention
until a cataclysmic event
shakes you and me
awake.
But if you didn’t think,
was it a thought? All I know for sure are
endings. (Like the wheel, are an
invention of us, without
thinking everything continues like
Aidan Stickles is a junior majoring in Psychology at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York, where he also heads the creative writing club. His work has appeared in journals such as North Star Literary Magazine and Street Cake Magazine.