by Sam Ward ’21 each sentiment rises and falls as if the moon inspires but these are brain waves living, breathing, decaying eternal in space, ethereal in time a reprieve from continuity complacent thoughts comatose it’s perfection or insanity and these thoughts will drive you mad so spill black and blue blood spelling out spirit […]
by Erin Venuti ’20 With September brings the last goodbyes of summer, The last marshmallow toasted, Farewell photos posted Of what you’ll leave behind. With September brings the first greetings of autumn, New tales to tell And new stories to live. Novel characters featured in contemporary classics. With September brings the pressure, The preoccupation, And […]
by Marelle Hipolito ’21 I hate being sensitive to normal things because of abnormal situations And I hate looking deeper into what’s meant to be surface-level interpretations Jokes and side notes, thinking every mirror has smoke Every double take and I go a little bit more insane I hate that my friends don’t hear me […]
by Jessica Polanco ’20 Sweet, was the Sunday I remembered Like a feather, I laid On the indulgences of quietness And joy A black bird approached my presence Told me I’d never forget this day Because it was the day you passed away Everything related to all I knew Everything related to me gone and […]
by Erin Venuti ’20 The day the words died, I felt everything. Beneath my paper skin, I sensed the germ set in And the illness begin, Corrupting all forms of word, Noun, preposition, Adjective, and verb. Beneath my paper skin, I felt The pulse ceasing To beat beat. Beat beat. The syllables decreasing. Beat, beat. […]
by Jessica Polanco ’20 Everyone dreads the feeling, But they truly never know what it feels like. It isn’t even a feeling, It’s just something that happens. When you get over an argument, You don’t even remember the exact time you did But you did. And it just happened. When something dries up, After getting […]
by Connor Zimmerman ’20 In a mirror, the reflection is clear. The image shows perfection. I look just how I hoped I’d appear I can’t think of any objections. The reflection sends me back to the past To the moments when I laugh and love. All the connections […]
by Marelle Hipolito ’21 It was many summers ago Never forgotten, always remembered: gut feeling of the end coming before the snap crack and cry of pain, landing on impact an injury so defeating there was no game to play no win or lose, just over a broken bone, a broken heart impossible to put […]
by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 “Boom, then crash The shattering of glass” Strange fruit hanging and you expect us to forget the past? Even though I saw my Momma in shackles at four, You really believe equality is an unnecessary bore? How quick to forget you are, truly, how fast. Who of you haven’t thought that […]
by Sam Pellman ’20 Have you ever been in a moment and stopped to think about how much you’ll miss that exact moment? That no matter where you are or when you are there, you will never be able to live that moment again? So you tried to stop to soak it in, but […]