Featured in the 2014 Fall Issue of Rambunctious
You're the Shellfish One Stephanie Dushay, '16 I'm not your oyster. You've shoved so much grit past my lips, down my throat In the hopes that one piece will lodge and I'll create a pearl for you By worrying that dirt into a pile into a mountain into an Everest And watching the sparkling snow settle in mounds over the buried bodies of those who tried and failed to climb my ranges of sorrow. But my suffering is not your tool and my tiny pearls are tightly guarded behind cold, locked jaws.