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UMBC Retriever Poets 

The Retriever Poets is a student organization
​dedicated to providing a space for the writers of UMBC
to compose and share original poetry.
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city
07.02.19

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there is a city in my head. the buildings are collapsing. i can’t escape the inevitable. the streets are filled with trash and sadness. i want to go home. but it’s a million light years away. i am stuck with a city in my head. there are windows being smashed...
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we the firefighters
06.26.19

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Today's children were pushed out of our nests before we had time to learn to fly. 
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The adults who raised us said we were their future, their promise of a better world. 

​They promised they would protect us...
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cancer
07.02.19

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I imagine that
in the last moments
the lungs
— paper lanterns pockmarked
with smoldering wounds --

​must have exhaled 
the thinnest of sighs...

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When I think of you
06.26.19

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When I think of you,
I don’t think of the faint moving image of me studying your laugh,
As the art that it is...
         
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