No One Told You? • • • Julia Mitchell

It’s the Little Things

Olivia Traub

The world gets busy Spins faster as the stars and sun rotate with fury Before I breathe out again, it’s Sunday and a new week starts tomorrow All I want is to break the cadence Disrupt the mundanity of my routine But in the meantime All I can do is think about the things that seem to make the world slow Think about the way my little brother’s towel drags across the floor after a bath About the way, your eyes light up when you catch a snowflake on your tongue The way I’ll hold onto your eyelash until you make a wish The way our father sings us happy birthday The way you kiss my hand after a pinky promise The sun and stars will forever be trading places And the week will be over before our next breath But I’m surrounded by stars Right in front of me That reminds me to keep moving Or else the greatest purities and sentiments will be lost to the cosmos