Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine # 14

silly putty you would think sitting stagnant for five years in a crowded desk drawer would crack and crumble the pink, double bubble textured putty and yet it resurfaces now surely confused as i am to see me grown up with the same child sized hands but a fresh worry and new years under my belt new years of turbulent, turmoiled triumph if staying inside for 4 months made me bold, then online school reversed it and i need something to stretch and pull the way i feel my mind stretched and pulled in a million and one directions sometimes i read the news and think: silly putty will outlive us Sydney Junkins Sydney Junkins is a writer from southeastern Pennsylvania whose work has appeared in Bridge Ink and Scarlet Leaf Review.