2024/Alex-

I'm from the hot streets waves

from jumping cactus balls all over my shoes and year long heat.

I am from the yellow place with some green under the hut I built with sticks.

(The smell of a full moon, it tasted like delicious happiness.)

I am from the land of my friend Louis

the gorilla tag teacher

whose trampoline games i remember

as if they were my own.

I'm from a desert place and into the ocean,

from blue seas and white skies.

I'm from the Leaning Tower Of Pisa and the

salty ocean, from dust devils and scorpions!

I'm from Minecraft

with a defeated dragon

and ten red stone creations I can build myself.

I'm from grilled cheese and potato chips,

pizza and hamburgers.

From the elementary school lost

to the PCS,

used to keep me happy.

Under my bed was a dandelion backpack

spilling purple notebooks,

a reminder of homework

to drift beneath my dreams.

I am from those moments-

nervous before joy-

I am attached to the family tree.