Here is an excerpt from my poem Small as Stars, Loud as Suns

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This is A love letter to the teachers who refuse to give up despite underfunding and blame

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This is an excerpt from my poem Not Every Rebel Has a Reason.

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This is an excerpt from my poem "I Was Meant to Matter".

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I am not unbreakable.
I am a thousand small fires
that learned to glow in the wreckage.