GINKGO MAGAZINE

Bloom in the Dark | Katherine Bauer

Unprecedented?

by: Lexie Kauffman

Man cannot sway the skies

but we can still ask why. 

Why do the winds and the waters 

become our adversaries? 

Why does a spark turn 

into a deadly blaze?

We can still ask how. 

How do we unite to fight 

a faceless enemy?

But there is the catch—

devastation is our consequence,

the face of our foe. 

Miles destroyed from “unprecedented” events. 

Hundreds dead at the fault of generations before. 

Nature will only get angrier. 

We are victims of 

the group project of life.

But one person cannot save us this time.

We are all going to fail

if we cannot unite.

Lexie Kauffman (she/her) is a junior Creative Writing and Publishing & Editing double major with minors in Professional & Civic Writing and Honors. She is the Creative Works Editor of Ginkgo Magazine and a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. She started reading and writing before she entered kindergarten, and she has no plans to stop. Her first stories were written on copier paper with crayons and Crayola markers. While those handwritten works are not available to the public, you can find her current work in Rivercraft, Ginkgo Magazine, The Bluebird Word, and more.