is a cataclysmic experience in a young girl’s heart. she is lost in the nostalgia of simpler times wide-eyed to the small pleasures she never thought she’d miss. so easy to fall back into place. but she has since realized she no longer fits in a space so small. so she stands at the window…
By Suraj Singareddy ’25 Managing Editor * Yellow petal lake Blossoming, dissipate Waves from rippled trunk ** Ground changing colors As the branches become bare Switch heaven and earth *** Matted paper stained Split grass bleeding onto it Bits of heart parchment **** All too different Pushing time onto — grazed blank Can it be…
By Olivia Charis ’25 Contributing Writer Fleeting shiny surface, but he still mesmerizes me I can see my dad’s reflection when I look at him He makes me want so many things I wonder how it would feel To salvage the possibility of all his potential To untwist all his nonsense into sense Imagine every…
By Esha Ahktar ’25 Contributing Writer Of all the mornings we spent together, I most clearly remember the sunlight. Her pink and orange curtains seized the dawn sunshine and threw it across her bedroom, lighting up our faces as we procrastinated starting our days. I remember the stack of perfectly curated books from Verso and…
By Suraj Singareddy ’25 Managing Editor “Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.” – José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopias When people look back on their…