Yellow Arrow Vignette | BLAZE
Passenger
Catarina Broccolino
Fogged moon in sky.
Three cows graze in the silence of late spring.
My father drives us home
with the windows down.
I speak with him,
but he doesn’t really listen.
I’m ten days till twenty
& I’m terrified of no longer being young.
How many more car rides through this nowhere town
beside my quiet father do I have left?
These roads are so curved
& in this indigo hour,
no one knows what lies beyond the next bend.
Catarina Broccolino is a poet from Mount Airy, Maryland. Before being captured by poetry, she began her studies at Loyola University Maryland as a physics student. By her second year, her writing minor became her second major, and she was selected to be the coeditor-in-chief of Loyola’s literary magazine, Corridors. This fall, she will begin her second year in this position and her final year of university. Currently, she is delighting in a nomadic summer, temporarily residing in New York.
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