Spring 2021

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What Will Kill Me  

Olivia Cyr

I. Alcohol 

My father’s father bottled everything.  

French Canadian and mean.  

We don’t talk about it…

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And Now The Rain Comes

Andrew M. Bowen

The summer baked the earth so that the grass

crunched when we walked upon it…

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Two Crows on a Telephone Line

Tom Squitieri

We knew at once

How easy it could be

Coming from different directions…

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Heart-Rooted: Lesson One in Chinese Characters

Changming Yuan

忘 /wang/: forgetting happens 

When there’s death on heart

忍 /ren/:to tolerate is to bear a knife

    Right above your heart…

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Spring 2020

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c o n s u m p t i o n

Audrey Chin '23

it is october
and the ridges on your skirt are higher than mine…

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Such Ambiguous Weather

William Doreski

Thunder crumples the afternoon.
The estuary sighs a long…

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Bohemian Heart

Bobbi Sinha-Morey

In the center of what
looked like a Brazilian
agate the eye of an owl
stared back at me when…

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Smell Coast to Coast Roses

Gerard Sarnat ‘67

Walking new body on ‘Frisco’s Embarcadero, Pacifica Radio blasts radical paranoia in general…

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Debt

Robert Beveridge

You let the goat leave. Your first mistake was not following those…

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A Typical Friday Night Dinner at the Dragon Canteen

Sarah Lao

a pot of fish soup slumps
over tablecloth, broth…

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chronos and kairos and the middle path

Valentino Gonzalez ‘21

when is the right place
where to awake among which places…

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You

Morgan Price '21

i used to think there were only two 
options for people like me, we who… 

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A Candle

Juan Castillo '22

Of holding a candle,
Many are the ways,
Yet the flame would
Rather remain untamed…

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Fall 2019

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Porch-Star

Cameron Jones '20

It’s a balmy night in Bethlehem
As we weave and wave our way…

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Almost

Laura Murphy ‘22

A moment before the sparrow rustles its feathers and scatters into the wind…

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The Birds, The Birds, The Burglar Alarm

Cameron Jones '20

Do you hear them when they call cuck-oo to you…

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A Garden to Keep

Issac Ortega '21

I hear from trees long dead- Which line the garden and form its barrier- Of the work I have been handed…

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I usually sing when I drive

Esther Lawrence ‘22

I usually sing when I drive. After practice, my hair is wet and my senses sharp and I slip between…

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Spring 2019

Differentiation

Aurora Sullivan ‘18

Carry me down the river to tell me it hasn’t always been this way…

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Hands

Maisie Kirn ‘20

Someone’s bought up all the cheese at Albertson’s grocery…

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My Legacy is a Bird’s Song

Jude Okonkwo ‘21

Make money, win a woman, leave a legacy they say…

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Helpless

Anna Gibbs ‘19

I have had enough of the things that lack resolution, solution…

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in response to O’hara and the tough things

Anna Gibbs ‘19

The sun has slipped from the sky. It is sleeping…

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Call Me Gringa

Samantha Neville ‘19

Call me gringa cousin: Call me gringa to my high cheekbones…

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Fall 2018

Ingenious White Boy of the Midwest

Salwa Tareen HDS '18

You come from what you came for: Bodies kissed the color of almonds. Full lips.  Anchored shoulders...

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Shan, Myanmar?

Al Lim '19

Faces resemble another’s heart-shape, while robes are now made in China...

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Overdose

Elida Kocharian '21

Glassy-green kerosene, her voice drinks itself blue...

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december, iii

Stuti Telidevara '20

Old wounds itch more than they hurt, I think... Read More