Today we begin a series of Friday blogposts about our Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Winners. The Red River Valley Writing Project partners with Plains Art Museum to serve as the state affiliate for North Dakota.
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| Davies High School (Fargo) 11th grader Michelle Chadraa at the 2017 Awards Ceremony |
In Arduis Fidelis, Lamentation of Hope, Regrets of
a Martyr (or: Artifice)
Chadraa,
Michelle
Grade: 11
School: Davies High School, Fargo ND
Educator: Nathan Kurtti
AWARD: Silver Key
In Arduis
Fidelis
I thought I saw a marigold
growing in my neighbor’s garden
But I must’ve been seeing things because it’s the
dead
of
winter.
growing in my neighbor’s garden
But I must’ve been seeing things because it’s the
dead
of
winter.
Tinny screaming of shriveling plants and strangled
insects
frittered in the background, drowned out by hungry vampiric gusts,
lost in the incessant moanings and groanings of the frostbitten Mother Earth.
frittered in the background, drowned out by hungry vampiric gusts,
lost in the incessant moanings and groanings of the frostbitten Mother Earth.
