Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

The international magazine of stories, poems, and art by young writers and artists. Published continuously since 1973.

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Lasers of the Night

On a stormy night
On Flossmoor Road
Light reflecting off water
Making a laser reflection.

Under the road
Lasers fire up into the sky
Light flows in a stream
Shooting up like a fountain.

Green lights
Red lights
Looks like
An aurora borealis.

Lasers go
Up and up and up
For an eternity.

Fountaining
And wiggling
And squiggling
Into a thin rope.

Light flies everywhere
Making a supernova
Of green lights
Red lights.

Light reflecting off Flossmoor Road
Light reflecting off water.