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Lucy Ton That (July 28th)

Posted on April 28, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

Lucy Ton That ’26 Lucy Ton That—was born again at 2:38 pmon July 28th, 2022 in Harvard,Massachusetts when she jumped off of abridge with four strangers. The distancebetween her two bodies was sixty feet,captured by the rust and wooden slats of therailway bridge and the murky river beneathit. The old Lucy Ton That is somewhereelse—inhaling…

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Lucy Ton That (October 2nd)

Posted on April 28, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

Lucy Ton That ’26 Lucy Ton That—was born, probably around9:00 pm, on October 2nd, 2003 at Brighamand Women’s Hospital in Boston,Massachusetts. Her mother will recall that itwas too late to be served dinner at thehospital. The parents were restless andhungry. Lucy will be a child born out ofhunger. At 9:57 pm on August 7th, 2022,behind…

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World

Posted on April 27, 2023December 5, 2023 by Makda Assefa

By Makda Assefa ’26 The world is a daunting place, they said, Rough, With edges that will poke and prod, Prick you, until blood is drawn. Hold your head up high, they said, Neck strained, eyes straight, Gaze fixed, Fixated on this world, This imperfect world where I am but a woman. I see this…

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Superviolet

Posted on April 27, 2023December 4, 2023 by Suraj Singareddy

By Suraj Singareddy ’25 After “Red Wall” by Yi Lei, translated by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi I plant violets in my ears Their splitting stems birth green tongues – digging, screwing, bursting like kudzu through my tympanic membrane middle ear isthmus  eustachian tube nasophraynx  oral cavity poke their heads out bushels unfurling in…

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Magnolias

Posted on April 27, 2023December 4, 2023 by Lula Talenfeld

By Lula Talenfeld ’25 I catch myself shape-shifting with the seasons A new form of spring that is juxtaposed with a falling That is forgetting how to care at all –  Weather changes sporadically like how I hear a heartbeat And I find a tornado where my closet used to be  The fence has come…

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