Category: Fall 2023

by Peyton Bortner Yesterday the rain outshined our tears When we buried Bruno in the garden. You dug the hole, I filled it up, and we marked the spot with a stone. When I’d cry, you’d offer a cat to me, knowing their warmth and soft nature would console me and my longing to cup…

by Nischal Bhandari There is a tall, sturdy tree outside the windowpane.It sits sometimes with the silence of mountains —Sometimes it stirs with the violence of storms.There must be agony outside this humming head.The tree shivers in incessant fears.Overhead the tree, birds are fleeing despite their heart-woven nests.At the bottom of the tree, a squirrel…

by Leigh Ann Sevastian I I meet you in March fur still wet and guts still red but April rots you. II Now a cold rain comes batters your bloated body and you come apart.

by McKenzie Janisz they’ll love all of your imperfections and won’t worry about blurring the flaws, because all your rhyme had a reason, all your action had a cause they’ll detail the scars you left, to find beauty in the pain, trail their body with lush petals and let the light wash it away they’ll…

by Chantal Peña Martinez In youth, you put faith on bonds held by trivial facts like favorite colors or who you tag at recess. Differences melt better than butter. Time passes and people become more aware of a world presented in venn diagrams. You study classes, backgrounds, and hair, or simply who might help you…

by Danielle Bongiovanni This has turned my skin as tender as a pear’s. A sigh could slit me open, spill the juice with ease, Pluck my heart like the ripest apple on the tree. You don’t even know you have the power, do you? Wouldn’t believe me if I told you. Darling, if you made…

by Danielle Bongiovanni For Pepper Comb your camera roll for every blurry photo, And save two backup copies. Swallow your anger at your parents For not calling you, for not thinking You could’ve made it home in time. Thank them for bringing you his collar. Keep it in your backpack Each time you take a…

by Paige Alis Dammers I sit and shake my legs filled with caffeine buzzing in veins both red and blue, pumping life inside my skin, suit beating with warmth, and I am, and the world is, cold. Wind breaks, cold glass piercing shards into my legs, sweet warmth bubbling to the surface of my unshaven…