Poetry by Naisha Randhar
YOU & I

My best friend and I grieve the world
on the way to school. We walk through chalk pictures, afraid
of having kids. Dragonflies
in a lit golden cage. Like islands, we are silhouettes.

Naisha Randhar is a published author and Dallas Youth Poet Laureate. She has performed at events such as the Dallas Lit Fest, hosted at SMU, and the bigBang! conference panel on “What It Means To Be Human”. Her poetry is featured in the Thanksgiving Square in Dallas, and she is the youngest guest to be interviewed on the Webby-award-winning TedEd podcast “How To Be A Better Human”. She has been recognized nationally by the National High School Poetry Contest and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and her work is published in the National Poetry Quarterly.

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