My passion is a paper crane, by Nicole Distasio

Origami Heart

My passion is a paper crane

or folded rose

or pleated star

And I see its beauty.

My passion is a paper plane

or folded box

or pleated boat

And I find its uses.

Through these creases we

fold in on ourselves

pleat to perfection

And take our hidden form.

You are lost in the concrete, precise and practical and punctual. You see only with your eyes, the architects of geometry, and are blind to our abstract figures, defined without variables or theorems. So to you

we are the flat ones.

– Nicole DiStasio

Nicole DiStasio, 18, is a senior at Lower Moreland High School with a passion for reading and writing. She often daydreams too much for her own good (she says), which is useful when she's coming up with stories to write or just trying to get through a period of A.P. Physics.