How to Save a Life
This author is a recipient
of the Sigma Tau Delta Award
Kirsten Webber ('25)
is currently a sophomore at St. Ambrose University. She is majoring in Psychology and English with a creative writing concentration and plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology. She enjoys writing poetry about wholesome, intimate moments that others may find comfort in or relate to. Webber's wish is for her readers to feel at home.
SOCIALS
Another trip to the grocery store.
He pushes the cart,
she picks the chips.
Pure Leaf sweet teas fill the cup holders because
they are always 2 for $3.
Driving through Breezy Hollow with
the windows cracked open, they
point out houses they’d like to live in.
Colonials and craftsmans in
antique copper brick, ornamental
gridded windows.
How was school today?
Norse tales and the existence of aliens.
Did you get to sit next to that boy?
Skittles at the basketball games
on Friday nights.
Do you want to go see that new movie
this weekend?
He tells stories: baseball in childhood,
his first job in a kitchen.
In the kitchen at home, he unloads
the bags and she fills the cupboards.
A pot of water boils on the stove
and she sets the table.
Sunlight shines through
the sliding doors onto
the dinner plates.