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Allie Hastings is a student at Endicott College working toward her bachelor’s degree in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Communications. She values time spent with family and friends and appreciates all the blessings in her life. Her debut poetry and short story collection, Querencia, was selected in 2018 to be featured in Endicott’s Young Writer Series, and her short story The Deceptive Nature of Love was printed in Teen Ink’s February 2018 issue. When she is not writing or reading, she enjoys listening to music, singing, playing the piano, doing yoga, and baking cupcakes.

Allie Hastings

Effloresce

 April

Unwraps its silvery bow
And feather-dusts the world with
The promise of pink-toned
Hues.

May

Glitters iridescent blue
Fluttering on the wind, it carries
The hope of renewal upon angel-dipped
Wings.

June

Spreads a warmth through my toes
A dazzling honey-lemon nectar, and I sense
That the season of bountiful exuberance
Has arrived.

— Allie Hastings

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