The Swell

"My home town, Chapel Hill, is swelling like a wound trapped in healing the wrong way. Two middle school girls were hit by cars last week, with too many cars and not enough road on Estes Drive. Under the beloved words “affordable housing,” I have witnessed old apartments be ripped out one by one and replaced with buildings that echo with empty unlived walls. Forests have been torn on behalf of the swell, and then not even replaced. In this swell, so many have come, and I have remained since a time before." - click image for story