Stone Soup

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Dyslexia

Letters crash

around me like

waves in a storm,

knocking me down,

pulling me into

the sea of words

as distractions fly

around me like

birds.

Birds,

like words,

dive down in a

swarm.

Lilly Davatzes
Lilly Davatzes, 11
Jenkintown, PA