It was 7am when I let you in, not expecting it all to end But it was obvious, like it came in with a marching band The chorus was filled with words we should’ve never said The ruckus echoing off the walls in my head The words hitting me till I bled “Where have you […]
At home you and I make the coffee without caffeine, For the heart murmurers who gather in another room, While jostling predispositions in hallways wait their turns to be heard. We save the coffee grounds and the broken eggshells For the soil of the vines and bleeding-hearts and thyme That make clear our hearts and […]
Sarah McLaughlin ’23 On the couch, we talked about everything and nothing. A number of things I’d remember, and a number of things I already forget. The movie watched and other movies, the songs we heard and other music, the things we liked about our grandparents and the things we hated, how many of them […]
You were so special. Like a beam of something good sitting next to me in every classroom, every space, every inch of the world as if we owned the air that we breathed in. You were so good to me. With words that wrapped me up warmly, just like a hug. With belly laughter that […]
I worship you on a golden altar of daylight, knees sinking into sand where I sit in supplication, flaunting you unabashedly with my flushed cheeks and freckled chest, wearing you like a cross. You spoil me seductively, appeasing my appetites with your alms of apricots and aperol, arousing my desire with the amorous caress of […]
An obnoxious yellow tag stands out on my black bathing suit, The neon color disgusting me when I discover it; My nails dig into the dirty label, Trying but failing to rip it off, As it stubbornly sticks to the dark suit. Finally, I shed this label, Yet I still feel the judging stares of […]
by Mariela Flores ‘23 This Poem is for my best friend. A goodbye is near, it lingers in our air. I feel the goodbye when we share a meal in a comfortable silence–– I feel the goodbye during late nights when all I want is to absorb any time I have left with you. It […]
by Caitlin Bartley ’24 Reading tea leaves, our silly tradition. Two cups of steaming earl grey, brewed bitter, growing cold because of your omission. I am frozen in time, entranced by mugs of milky tea, unaware that the café is closing, trapped in a space between fate and reality. And although we […]
Grace O’Connor ‘22 The blue in her sparkly eyes hugged the green rim in the middle She was careless, as her only fear was if her mom would hide her favorite rose dress from her The cloth of her dress held infinite red roses, which she wore with a gleaming smile Her smile could cure […]
Caitlin Bartley ’24 At nighttime girls are stripped bare, washed and dried, slathered in oils and moisturizers and serums, and dressed in white silks. So soft and sweet. Girls are put to bed, laid on linen sheets, eight hours to sleep until the alarm rings. This is how girls are prepped to be devoured […]