Alice--By Laurie Nguyen (Robin Goodfellow)--United States

Alice

Lovely whispers embrace soft

rays of sunlight. Quiet, playful

cries come through the sounds

as lullabies sooth children's

fragile fingers. Gripping stems and

leaves, they flew by, strands of

honeydew glistening upon the

afternoon light, paper airplanes

bashfully lingering near. Scents

of glue and cookies sweep

through the air, kissing lightly 

the sweet scent of sugar and tea 

and anything else that would 

have adults

sigh

nostalgically.

Laurie Nguyen (Robin Goodfellow) is a student at the University of North Texas. She first became interested in writing when she was three, scribbling all over her parents' walls and imagining herself in old fairytales while walking in her father's garden. Since then, she has published poems in the online magazine, Nature Writing, as well as the Haiku Journal and the Healing Poetry.