Amanda Cleary is a high school student in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She began writing in third grade and hasn’t stopped since. She plays the mellophone for her school’s marching band, and spends the rest of her time reading and talking to her parakeet.
RHODE ISLAND
Rain falling past a red truck
Rusted from abandonment
That retains the memories
Of Robert and Riley,
Whose hopelessness
Resonates in the
Never-ending rushing
Of the river
That runs through town
