Western by Michelle Bennett : American Life in Poetry #234 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006

This week’s poem is by a high school student, Michelle Bennett, who lives in Tukwila, Washington, and here she is taking a look at what comes next, Western Washington University in Bellingham, with everything new about it, including opportunity.
Western

You find yourself in a narrow bed you’ve never slept in,