Stasis

by Lauren Sukin

This is the domino theory: that we will fall

like small Asian countries (against the Berlin wall)

awestruck at finding solace

in the great democratic fingertips.

With your arms a cradle into evening,

We will crest and wane and linger into the dark,

ever peering around the red corner.

I pray that nothing changes,

pray thanks and hope that at sunrise

the morning will undress me,

and naked I may tumble into stasis. 

 Lauren Sukin is a sophomore at Brown University, and is originally from Atlanta, Georgia where she graduated from Pace Academy. She is concentrating in political science and literary arts. She has been published in several high school and college publications as well as Poetica, Mad Swirl, Webs Magazine, and Vernacular.