Today Has Been an Era
Isabella Durgin
I don’t know how to feel
When there is pain
In the streets that
has built up Like the
oil on roads and
now (for us)
The rain has come,
When the indefatigable dark
Cannot permeate our house,
When my dinner table melts away
Into stolen sand,
When my ears ring from the blood–
Theirs, not ours–that spills Out of
all mouths.
We are complacent as the world burns
Because it is we who threw the torch.
Isabella Durgin is a 19 year-old writer from Mississippi who has received statewide and national recognition for her creative pieces. She currently attends the University of California, Los Angeles where she is pursuing an English degree to explore her passion for the written word. Isabella writes for the Arts and Entertainment section of the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s student newspaper, and her ultimate goal in life is to own an independent bookstore.
