Amya Avery '28 There’s something about leaves falling off of trees and slowly drifting down. You’d figure that a tree would know when...

Kevin Knebel '26 Every year, as the snow fell, we would construct castles. Well, snow castles, or snow forts depending on who you ask,...

Skylar Saldutti '26 My puppy… now a puppy with lighter fur between her tired eyes. My puppy that still runs for frisbees just at a slower...

Bella Burnett '28 I asked you, when will I know? When will I be “that” person? When will I be the one with those brilliant ideas, The kind that rush out of people so strongly and quickly, But yet are still so detailed, and meticulously perfected in a blink of my eye. My eye that struggles to see, but still wants to try, I put on my glasses but yet I still find myself asking, When will I be proud? Time blows away, The wind carries what could have been, It’s off somewhere with

Paige Park '29 Ice cream turns into pumpkin spice Dresses are now fuzzy sweaters The weather has a pleasant feel And everyone seems more...

Anastasia Miller '26 There is a version of me only the color red really knows. But that version of me isn’t all I am anymore. The crimson...

Anaya Chambliss '28 Fresh The air was fresh The wind flowed freely Free of the shackles that come with flesh He longed to take the wind,...

Anaya Chambliss '28 She blinked against a gust of wind as she stepped into the garden Although, she didn’t care to admire the flowers  or...

Tess Grim '28 one day i’m gonna be an astronaut i will blast off and touch the stars one day i’m gonna be an astronaut leave this planet...

Jo Owens 27' Honque A made-up word Not claimed by the French or the Americans A word that combines two beautiful languages into a rough...

By Anaya Chambliss 28' A toy becomes an old toy when you grow tired of it Barbies with their heads popped off Trucks without wheels All...

Joshua Wangia 25' crazy when together, we’re like may and hem sometimes i fear i am who i say i am wouldn’t ever wish this burden on...

Tess Grim 28' you don’t know how little you are until you’re alone. to wake up into silence, to walk with no purpose, to face the...

Tess Grim 28' to know yourself is to love yourself to love yourself is to respect yourself to respect yourself is to forget your past to...

Anastasia Podgornaya 26' The river from my childhood flows before me Here, on these muddy, grassy banks,  I would sit and play   I sit...

Layla Gentile 26' Humans are art. Because the only meanings we hold are how we’re perceived. It can be from the feeling inside your...

Jennifer Fox 26' Like an angel you protected me You helped me learn to fly You were my wings Kept me off the ground Wouldn't let me fall...

Joshua Wagnia 25' you assume when you hurt me you are hurting me once but in truth you have already hurt me a million times there are no...

Walking by — Staring at the clay gorilla.  It stands out to me Among the rest of the art. Its two different eyes: One looking at me,  The...

Katie Creighton 27' The wandering breeze carried my yawing whisper throughout the room, It quietly grazed over every untouched seat,...

i feel a pull to a place that doesn’t exist “i want to go home” as i’m lying in my bed how dare you hold the creator of everything over...

the crackling sound of tires revolving home  awakening to the sun in the window and my world at my side the way you look at me; brown...

you count yourself out just to fit yourself in you never felt comfortable inside your skin all that you want not to do this again see...

Celina Bagchi '24 even though you hold her, you know she’s long gone; she’s slipping like water through your fingers, like a memory and a...

Danika Staples '24 At my peak, I’m high but not high enough, Might look scandalized, but I’m just broken. My throat is tight, they sweat,...

Joshua Wangia '25 An autumn afternoon. He’s running, the air fresh and cold in his lungs. With his teammates behind him, he runs glorying...

Celina Bagchi '24 i’ll kill you with a caramel touch and bittersweet gaze, to remind you how momentary my affections are, how temporary i...

Celina Bagchi '24 Your needs, my wants, and the in between where we meet Who am I becoming? I wonder. I see your smile in streetlights...

Celina Bagchi '24 I don't believe in God, I believe in fitting you like a glove or the seafoam breaking over rocks on the shore forever....

Celina Bagchi '24 in the shadows, i dream of honeysuckle sweet kisses and afire love, where you worship me like i am the strings on your...

Celina Bagchi '24 I have a deep innate love for Petrichor and long walks on forested trails, for The sound of your laughter in the...

Celina Bagchi '24 When I step off the plane, the first thing I notice is the humid air. Sudden and engulfing, it wraps around my body...

Celina Bagchi '24 “No, I thought—” “Again and again and again—” “Still you try—” You never seem to finish your sentences. You kiss my...

Celina Bagchi '24 You breathed in the chilled air, Inhaled transparent promises as you wondered why no one ever seemed to keep their...

Danika Staples '24 Act 5 Scene 1 Line 180 Yorick (or more accurately his ghost): You ask me to go speak to your lady, 1 And Hamlet I...

Libby Brewer '25 Thank you. Goodbye. Hello. The cycle most forgotten Thank you We don’t have a enough time to say thank you all the moments we should I don’t remember to say thank you every time I should Thank you is a necessity to progression Pay respect for the things that have passed Transition Spring thanks winter A plant thanks it’s roots Your happiness thanks your sadness Even thank the things you wouldn’t want to say hello to Goodbye Leaving something behind you will n

Bella Mastrobuono '24

Blair Mitchell '25 Beneath the frost-kissed earth, invisible, asleep, A gladiator, bound in winter's embrace, sets fires ablaze with...

Camryn Jones '26 Falling Apples The air turned crisp, like the fresh breath of a newborn I hang on the tree With the perfect shade of...

Celina Bagchi '24 if eyes are the windows to the soul, mine must have closed long ago, because i don’t think i have one anymore. don’t be so dramatic,  you tell me, but it’s not drama, can’t you see? i built the cage around my heart; it’s made of my own bones, brittle and flat. what do you know about dreaming? i ask. dreams are stories created by the dark recesses of my mind when the real world has grown too tiring. dreams are visions that haunt me every time my eyelids close

Celina Bagchi '24 Legend has it the moon came from a duck who laid its eggs on the daughter of the air. When the eggs cracked, the whites...

Joshua Wangia '25 what is love shall it be declared under the morning sun or whispered late under red lights is it sacred or carnal holy...

Michaila Matthews ‘26 Lost at sea an alarm comes as we call To land we can't see, no hope of return. Dark like the endless ink void,...

Celina Bagchi '24 imagine: two specks, bright against the lonely night sky swaying, as ceramic cheeks crack and luminous eyes meet in the...

Rowen Harbert '26 A thin strip of fabric Lined with little images of lions Speaks back to me Small holes are engraved from wear A simple...

Alycia Steck '25 I could sell my moniker in bottles For five quarters and a dime, but for you My name is a gift I slip in your palm. Each...

Joshua Wangia '25 the feeling builds up in your throat like the walls you are enclosed in. your eyes, panes of glass that might shatter at any moment. you feel a dull pain deep in your chest as you hear the world and its people loving and living and dancing without you. you try to get up, to join the great dance, but you are chained by your back to the sidewalk as the one who holds the keys smiles. the party goes on. you’ve closed your eyes shut to protect the glass, but you

Daniel Shin '24 In the stillness of the morning dew, The world awakens, fresh and new. A symphony of birdsong fills the air, Nature’s...

Daniel Shin '24 Beneath the surface of my quiet repose, A tale untold, in the marrow it grows. Silhouettes dance in the corners of my...

Melinda Shen '24 People who look like me were always the best at getting things done, at least that's what I've been told. But I'm not...