by Tiambra Blas Giants pierce the clouds,Saplings reach up for sunlight,Life begins again.
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Butterfly’s First Flight
by Tiambra Blas From a small green worm,Who grips a velvet leaf,My life can bloom now,Wings are finally set free,Reborn in skies of blue grace.
The Stone
By Devon Hulteen I vaulted over the porch stairs, echoes of shouting chasing me through the crooked screen door behind me. The faded green paint flaked off as it slammed against the frame. Not stopping to listen for an instruction that might countermand my father’s angry “Just get out!” I sprinted across the backyard and into the forest that sat at the…
Between the Hours
Marina Sanchez When sleep still clings but morning’s near at hand, The campus breathes in whispers, soft, profound. Each window holds a light the dark had planned, Each footstep fades before it meets the ground. The trees lean close, their branches brushed with gray, As though the silence teaches them to breathe. A book left open waits for break of day, Its pages…
Faith in the Dark Collection
Faith in the Dark By: Vicky Wilkinson I would never wish my life upon you.Even after stitching these wounds,watching them close.I wouldn’t, no. Breathe.Breathe in the air of life.But where would it take me?Where would it take me? The chilled breeze runs across my face.I think I’d like to stay in this empty place.Hollow hills,…
From Eden
By: Cole Grennen You’re here to find something, but you’ve gotten lost. The sun has begun to set, and your phone is dead. You forgot what you came here for, but it was important. You remember it was important, like the ghost of honey on your tongue. Do you wish to proceed? To the North…
“Other Girls and Womxn in Whom I SeeVersions of Myself:”
A Conversation with Poet Laura Read By: Johanna Deletti & Madison Bourguignon LAURA Read’s third poetry collection, But She Is Also Jane (Winner of the Juniper Prize from University of Massachusetts Press), was released in April 2023, delivering a sharp commentary on misogyny, shame, and many other facets of the female experience. In the context…
The Warmth Before Memory
By: Ariel Lee You are standing underneaththe willow tree. You are looking downa driveway at a house that used to be.The tree’s boughs are a great hoop skirtthat conceals a marvelous playhouse- aroom with vaulted ceilings that shiverin the wind and whisper to the childreninside. Next to the tree there is a foundation. The foundation…
Silence of Traslation
By: Cole Grennen TRADUTTORE, traditore. To translate is to betray. Translator and journalist Robert Bethune translated the old Italian saying, literally: “translator, traitor.” The saying highlights that translation betrays the intention of the original text. An audience reading a translation will never understand the meaning and the intention of the original. Translators inevitably alter a…
When It’s All Gone
By: Ella Downs “Are you hungry? What will you eat?” I turned with a start, bewildered to see a girl standing in my office. “How did you get in here?” The parameters of my building are surrounded with guards, the nation’s best. She shrugged and traced the edge of my desk with her finger. “It…