Young Poets

Pain

Rattle / October 29, 2016

The ignorant believe pain is terminal, an end-all-be-all affliction that is dark and infernal, and they all clutch desperately onto […]

Rattle / October 22, 2016

Natosha R. (age 14) BOOTS I don’t know who owns the boots. I see them at my bus stop in

Rattle / October 15, 2016

Luna Zoe Pressman (age 4) CHICKY IS THE NAME OF THE POEM The girl was sleeping. She wasn’t doing anything

Rattle / October 8, 2016

Ishaan Praitis (age 4) UNTITLED The ten waterfalls Were nice and shining. They led to an ocean That was a

Rattle / October 1, 2016

Horatio Perry (age 7) WIND It’s what makes the spiders tremble. It’s what makes the deer nimble. It’s what makes

Rattle / September 24, 2016

Horatio Perry (age 7) MYSTERY Swift as though a mouse is running, quick as though a banker’s funding, black as