Brooke Tiedt

I swear the trees are watching me. They whisper while I sleep. Their leaves rustle every time I breathe.

If they know, they don’t say a word. I ignore my hands, the twisted bike frame, the stopped car. 

All I see are trees, sap running down their trunks like blood.

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 Brooke Tiedt is an undergrad author and poet from Missouri. Her work has appeared in Castabout Literature, Youth Imagination, and Lucky Jefferson. She is the author of Stars Above, a YA novella. Besides writing, Brooke can often be found making a mixed-media collage or playing the flute.