The week that passed between Valentine’s Day and today was one of the more dramatic of my life, as Austin faced five back-to-back winter storms and the longest prolonged freeze in its history. There are many lessons from this time, but one of them is that we need each other. Neighbors, friends, strangers. The government may have failed us this week, but we didn’t fail each other. We held each other up. This poem entered the box with gratitude for my community, those on my street and those farther away.
“He hears the hum of a boy’s dream
deep inside him.”
