Category: Poetry

The Downfalls of Divination

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 […]

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Pink Popsicle

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 […]

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Meal Prep 

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  […]

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Blue Light

by Nicole Patano ’22   Past the student center she walks, a ringing in her ears. Her name is spoken in whispers  by the boys she met last year. The ones who took the chance to kiss her and then left her alone to cry silent tears.    Beyond their voices, another sound, steady as […]

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King Slayer

Toni Rendon ’24   Here I am standing on a hill  Not at the top  Just here on the hill   Made up of the bodies of the kings I’ve killed    Their blood trickles onto the ground  Barely making a sound and washing my past in red  Their crowns’ weight bowing my head  Suffocating the […]

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Wish!

Marelle Hipolito ’22 There is wet sand stuck in my wet hair.  There is wet sand stuck in my sweatshirt, and in between my toes,    but I don’t care. I’m busy looking up at the night sky with you, rooting for a shooting star.   Not many things have been going our way. Life […]

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A World Drawn in Pencil

by Caitlin Bartley ’24 I like to imagine that the world was drawn in pencil, my body an illustration on a canvas. Just think of all the things I could fix, stretch marks on my thighs erased like crooked lines on geometry homework, coffee stains on my teeth erased like dirty smudges on clean parchment. […]

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Help! It’s My Eye! It’s Gone!

by Max Gilman ’25 How do you fix a broken eye? There must be some way to mend the deteriorating oculi, In the time we live, there must be a way. There must be a way to fix my broken eye. Without an eye, it’s easy to spite and spit with no direction. With an […]

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Songs the Lonely Sing

by Madison Palmieri ’22 They are the ruffled wings of a little bird in flight, The muffled songs the lonely sing as day turns to night. The gentle tides ebb and, in turn, flow, The crashing of the waves, with which their secrets go. They are the aches and pains, The jealousies and vanities, They […]

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Cracks in the Walls 

Caitlin Bartley ’24   Nostalgia likes to creep through the cracks in the walls  And seep its way into my pores to suffocate me in my sleep.  The air becomes thick with memory, a stifling heat  That makes my mind hazy with hallucinations.  When it enters my bloodstream, I slip into oblivion  And dream of […]

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