Prompt:

Write an advice poem to your younger self. What would you say? What should you know? Share that knowledge! Here are a couple photos of me from middle school. I have A LOT of advice that I would give to 5th and 6th grade Ellen!

Poem 19/30 excerpt

I spend all my time dreaming

out the car window. Watching the hills

of Kentucky rise up and fall.

Try to steady my heartbeat.

It’s moving too fast

I’m letting it all go.