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…
Category: Poetry
Rigidity married Routine—at 8:06 am, on
Lucy Ton That—will be married on January
18th, 2034, not in a church.
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…
Haikus for the Gingko
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…
Mirror for Me
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…
Before Avery R Young
By Chidima Anekwe ’24 Editor-In-Chief Black is the nation which we delivered “Delivered us from evil” and arose From the water, cold water she shivered Her ancestors dance as the hot sun glows Singing and beating a drum, a rhythm My heart knows and pounds along beating red Bleeding red and she kisses the wound…