Yellow Walls

Yellow walls and carpet floors.

Four walls and three windows.

One ice cream truck

Circling the block.

No calls.

No callers.

An empty guestbook by my side.

A perfect rest for the glass.

Four yellow walls. Three drinks.

Two tears.

One me. Waiting.

Amanda Suarez is a Narrative Studies major and screenwriting minor at the University of Southern California. She graduates in the fall of 2017, and looks forward to chasing the life of a writer. Her love of poetry started when she made her own “Hallmark” cards for family members as she was growing up. Since then, she has loved every form of writing, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting. She has love for digital media writing as well, and currently also writes for Annenberg Media and The Sack of Troy on campus. Some of her favorite poets are Edgar Allan Poe, Ellen Hopkins, and Gwendolyn Brooks.