Caitlin Striff-Cave

Caitlin Striff-Cave is a high school senior from West Hartford, Connecticut and won the Connecticut Student Gold Award for her poetry. This is her first published poem. She hosts a storytelling podcast called “The Staircase: One Story at a Time.”

Tree branch splinters mirror my frayed fingers

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Tree branch splinters mirror my frayed fingers skin peeling from the nail bed. I wonder when exactly it became so hard to shift my eyes away from this point on the ground. I used to feel the blood whisking through my veins, laced around and under and through my flesh. It’s stagnant now, though, and … Read more