Last Names

Madison Cossaboom

Long nights, I spend dreaming of a river

Winding between wooded plains and forgotten prairies

Softly breaking to caress sunkissed grass

Walls which shelter the aspiring ants

I dream of the tulip fields claimed by the sun

Serving as paint on the planet’s canvas

A landscape soon to be perpetual

In the memories of another

I dream of the places

Only my last name has touched

The ground only to be walked upon

By the feet of my ancestors

Digging their toes into mother nature’s soil

Forever enamored to restful lands

I dream to be home

The place native to my body and flesh

Where my last name grew and flourished

With spirit only legend tells about.

This piece was previously published in Issue 5 of The Trailblazer Review.

Madison Cossaboom is a writer, poet, and tea-enthusiast from the United States. Albeit writing third-person biographical statements is not her forte, she has been published in the TeenInk Literary Magazine, The Trailblazer Review, and more. When she is not writing, she is sipping tea while enjoying the rather noisy company of her cat.