Jordan Groocock is a 13 year old living in San Francisco. In addition to The Offing, his work has been published in Young Inklings, and has received honors such as the Gold Key medal from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. He writes to process what's going on in the world and in his own life.

YOUTH PORTFOLIO

Thunder Over a Nation

By JORDAN GROOCOCK

I hear / the camps devour people whole, / sweeping the last crumbs of life / under the rug of genocide.