by Elizabeth McGinn ’21 Flashes whirling past, face pressed against the glass, eyes adjust to a moving landscape from a train. A glimpse at strange moments as we pass, waving adieu to the lonely buildings that remain. Littered with flecks of dust and drops of rain, the plexiglass portal offers rare sights to me, the […]
by Sarah Heavren ’21 It’s always darkest Before the dawn Darkness is still there Before it’s gone. There’s always the hope Of a new day. But there’s still the wait While the night fades. Good things are to come. There’s still the fight To get to the day, Escape the night. Darkness has become Like […]
by Grace O’Connor ’22 She looked in the mirror and took a deep breath Today was the day her life would change She looked down at her newly polished nails as her heart drummed in her chest Time was going by painfully slow but too fast She stood up slowly and walked down the stairs […]
by Sarah Heavren ’21 I remember, Thinking of days gone by, That this started With the blink of an eye. Before I was ready, Somehow I knew By some way at some time I’d be with you. You were the first to listen And the first to enjoy The witty and clever Humor that […]
by Sean Tobin ’20 Here, November, warmth retires— Rush to start the Winter fires! Yet the Sun has not retreated And left him for whom It’s needed Without the glow which inspires. And on the dead for which It’s whitest; Yes, brighter, nay, the brightest; Now on them shall It remain, Now, on them, who […]
Does Fear Disappear? By Sean Tobin ’20 Does fear disappear If Stephen King writes it down And Hitchcock films it? Or does fear instead Creep, crawl, and hide deeper down Where you cannot reach? The Wind Sarah Heavren ’21 The wind whips and wails Shaking the walls Rattling the trees Making leaves fall. It […]
by Sarah McLaughlin ’23 Tourists converge from Earth’s every corner to see The piece of the past stored on this pebbled beach All paths extending westward from the east Meet here, the first of our nation’s vertices It’s so special to so many, apparently To view—The Rock—which began our history They’ve never switched it out, […]
by Sean Tobin ’20 One of mine, but given: Today when I arise And see slow-rolling skies Illuminate what lies This bleak side of heaven, Just one thought do I save— How bless’d this northern shore; The same which fathers fore, Sea-sick, God-starved, back-sore, Saw and knew they must have; We know the sounds she […]
by Gabriela Baron ’20 I can’t believe that you did that to her. You wore a mask of false integrity. She was a captive, now unleashed from “sir” Yet sinking back into naiveté. The door is open, but she stays inside. The birds are singing but she cannot hear. I still don’t know where […]