Lucy Ton That ’26 Shame—was born at 9:48 am on September22nd, 2022, in a dusty classroom on YorkStreet full of Viet kids who can’t speak theirown language. Shame was born at the samemoment that language died a confused deathin Lucy Ton That’s mouth, strangled by hernoose of a tongue. Learning language is likebecoming a child…
Lucy Ton That ’26 Rigidity married Routine—at 8:06 am, onNovember 11th, 2022, when it had been 71days of the same oatmeal placed on the sameringed water stain on the same wooden tablein front of the same gabled windows. I haveinfinite oatmeal days ahead of me. Theingredients of a day are very simple. Thebase is a…
Lucy Ton That ’26 Lucy Ton That—will be married on January18th, 2034, not in a church. It doesn’tparticularly matter who she will be marriedto, it just matters that she will become wife.She will be a wife. The space that she willhave jammed artificially in between “Ton”and “That” with her computer cursor, willdeflate, run all out…
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…