About the Young Writers Project
YWP, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, Vermont, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power and to gain confidence and skills for the workplace and life. YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in newspapers across Vermont, on Vermont Public Radio and in YWP’s monthly digital magazine, The Voice. Since 2006, it has offered young people a place to write, explore and connect online at youngwritersproject.org, which has only one rule: Be respectful. For more information, please contact YWP executive director Geoffrey Gevalt at ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org.
Erin Bundock, 18, of Shelburne is a writer and artist who is working this summer as an intern with Young Writers Project. This poem is accompanied by a “frisket,” a multi-layered painting that she created starting with one line and building on it. Erin will be a freshman at the University of Vermont in September.
Lightning Bug Kisses
By Erin Bundock
[S]he’s sweeter than
lightning bug kisses,
or dandelion wishes on a Sunday afternoon.
She’s the moon’s child,
caught here until she finds
her return address on one of the fallen stars.
