Kenna Pearl
Makeshift Graduations
despite the nausea of world turn
it felt as though the Earth held her breath
blanketing the hills in silence that screams potential
one gas leak exhale and a match is all it takes
so raise your bottle to the sky
there’s a bonfire glowing between us
kneel to the queen in her cardboard crown
let the stars giggle silver at our revelry
because there’s no difference between dress robes and a bedsheet
when you grow up just in time
for the end of the world
Kenna Pearl is a theater, film and media studies student in the undergraduate program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She lives with her family in Southern Maryland.
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