Lightyears away – Amanda Little Rose
Tonight,
I stitched light-beams
and heart-strings
Together,
with thread
Pulling tightly
all the parts of me
I’d left to ruin
out in the rain.
Amanda Little Rose has been a high school English teacher for five years, and graduated Bachelors of Arts and Science in English and Secondary Education, from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where she is currently studying to get her MFA in Poetry.