I gave her chancesPlenty of chancesChances to act and walk and talk and breatheAnd treat and wound the way sheShould.We had our chance, and we blew it through a paper straw,Watched it blow away like litter in the wind.Shoulders hunched, spine aching,Back breaking with the weight of the world.I am in her arms, her head lies dormant on my chestSimply a breath away from the press of my lipsTo skin...

Caitlyn’s head lays tucked in the curve of my neck. Her hair is soft against my skin and I hear her voice tremble as she speaks. We’re out here, laying in the freshly sprinklered grass. She lays on my jacket, to keep her velvet dress from the dewy grass. I, on the other hand, can already feel the water soaking through my shirt. “Hey, Tristan,” she says, looking at me intensely. Her eyes stare d...

She didn't have bruises to ink her skinBut the lashes from your words were enoughTo have her cower from withinYou were at war with yourselfAnd she an unfit soldier for your causeSo your kisses sufficed for the small stuffIt's real now isn't itthe abcense of the windIt's real now isn't itsuffocating, pinned to the bedDeath comes for us allAnd it's real  now, isn't it?When you plunge to the fall...

Through a dusty kaleidoscope of broken colors I gaze down Never afraid to fall One eye on my horizon And one cast over my bruised shoulder Planning my next defense Castaway on the pearl beach I sit with the foam kissing my toes Waiting on your vessel I turn away Fix my sights ahead onto tomorrow With or without you I’ll leave the past to the choices they made I’ll let the vile hate brew withou...

Captured by the stars, some people just want to be free.The best thing about memory is that it’s never truly accurate. Your image is nothing less than a beautiful ghost, your voice a phantom whisper on the wind as I stand alone.Desolate.But no one ever thinks about what it’s like to live in the shadow of the sun.To stand in the timeless cosmos and gaze into a universe without light. To feel the...

An Ode To Twenty Years of Friendship by Olivia ThomakosSeneca Avenue summer was meeting at the stop sign halfway between our houses to chase the ice cream man a quarter mile to South School. Your ankle clicked like the window latch we broke jumping from the second story at midnight to meet basement boys playing video games.Autumn homecoming dresses filled albums of photos flower-surrounded in ...

https://youtu.be/pul1w0F7xMgDirector: Janira HernandezCommunity Prayer: paru francesPerformances: Frances Herrera-Lim, Sean Derek, Tori Cristina, S...

when i think of you, i remember sledding in the woods on the lids of garbage cans, splitting our fingers open. i think about the mirror we covered up when we watched a horror movie, how we weren’t scared of anything until it was next to us. i think about how you weren’t a catalyst, you weren’t a pair of hands, you were just someone i loved. just in a good way. after all this time, there’s nothi...

Empire State BuildingDistorted and magnifiedAs I stare straight aheadGrief washes over meIt tickles my towsBefore a rogue wave takes out my kneesAlmost two yearsAnd it still feels like yesterdayThe news hitting hard, but not computingI regret not reaching out moreNot attempting to visit againBeing unsure what to say and doI try to remember the good timesFrom years pastA decade feels like a life...