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#NewsPoet: Talking to your kids after a school shooting

Courtesy of Jacob Wesley Sutton
Anastacia-Reneé is Seattle's second Civic Poet"

In the wake of school shootings like the one in Parkland, Florida this year, parents are asking: "How do I talk to my child about mass shootings?"

KUOW helped answer that question with a story we did in March.

That inspired our next #NewsPoet, a series where local poets write an original piece based on a KUOW news story.

Today we hear from Seattle Civic Poet Anastacia-Reneé, with her poem: “Wrecked.”

Wrecked 

there are pieces of you (child) lodged 

behind another piece of you (child)

wedged between another 

dangling part of the you that 

was//call it an accident that you

were born to survive the wreckage 

always walking or crawling or 

slithering away once your frame 

has been bent to turnstile

Related stories about guns and gun violence in Washington state: 

Read more: Fatal gun violence looks different for Seattle kids, depending on where they live

Read more: Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic

Read more: ‘Why are you entitled to be safe?’ the gun owner asked this teen

Read more: In Unusual Move, Washington Attorney General Endorses Gun-Related Ballot Measure

Read more: This Yakima Valley school district has had guns on campus since 2014

We are researching youth gun deaths in King County. What do you want to know? Is there a story we should know, or someone you’d like to commemorate? Write to sydney@kuow.org and iraftery@kuow.org.

Year started with KUOW: 2015