If I were a preacher, I’d tell you
love is everywhere. People are everywhere.
Rice is everywhere. Hugs are everywhere.
God is everywhere. God is in you, love is
in God so that makes us all love—
right?
That makes us all walking shells for love,
skin sealed caskets that carry the key
to sanity in our beings.
I’d tell you to: pour some out, slick our streets with it,
brace yourselves for the fall because
here we go.
Fortunately, I am not a preacher.
Raven Little (she/her) is a New Orleans native, now pursuing a degree in Broadcast Journalism at University of Louisiana Lafayette, but a poet at heart. Being trained as a writer for most of her schooling, Raven isn’t afraid to push boundaries as she experiments with form, repetition, and storytelling in her poetry. She is the author of a self-published chapbook entitled Kairos, and a title holder in many writing competitions including: one of eight Gold Medalists in the nation for the Scholastic Senior Portfolio in 2019.