Hogwarts Is Ours

By: Linda M. Crate

harry potter
connected me to people i may not
have otherwise met

for that i will be grateful

all the rps, all the future rps possibly;
the conversations and the jokes,
all the fanfictions and fan theories

every shade between—

hogwarts is ours,
as is the magic;

we’ve outgrown rowling and her prejudices 
and her hatred and her unwillingness to grow—

hogwarts is ours
it always will be.

Linda M. Crate’s works have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies both online and in print. She is the author of six poetry chapbooks, the latest of which is: More Than Bone Music (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, March 2019). She’s also the author of the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018) and two micro-poetry collections. Recently she has published two full-length poetry collections Vampire Daughter (Dark Gatekeeper Gaming, February 2020) and The Sweetest Blood (Cyberwit, February 2020).