A mouth full of cotton.
Venom-soaked fiber.
He slipped through the grass, the rocks and plastic.
Curling and winding over the wheels of a turned-over trike,
Into honey-glazed hands. Sugar broke off across his scales,
As he stared into a starburst of a smile.
The cry of a siren.
Halie Brown is a UofA senior majoring in editorial journalism. She was the lifestyles and news editor for The Arkansas Traveler and is the current Hill Magazine assistant editor. She spends much of her free time removing Oxford commas and has been told that she is best known for her Twitter lists.