A Poem Spring Wrote
Camille Scordis '21
You have a vibrant glow about you, / a glittering hue of burnished orange [...]
NYP - One Way
Mackenzie Mazzarisi '21
Underground. Follow the scent of fresh city air. Sunlight crawling into your eyes [...]
Trampoline
Camille Scordis '21
Wrapped in the warm June air / Slowly swaying on the stretchy sea [...]
Life Lessons in Graphite
Hannah Park '23
Sometimes the materials seem foreign in your fingertips [...]
Pearly Whites
Spencer Knerr '20
Alright, here it is: we open on a kid eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich [...]
searching for deceased relatives
Hannah Choe '21
I press my face up against the oval window and smile until my cheeks throb [...]
Bandages, Bullets, and Blasphemy
Alexander Frank '20
You arrive in a rush – / coffee breath – / mind filled with the “I will” / of the Hippocratic Oath [...]
Caspian
Camille Scordis '21
She fell for the Sailor / who set his course and / sailed swiftly over the sea [...]
Robert “Buddy” Emmett Murphy Jr.
Brooke Littman '21
“Hey, man, you won’t believe what I smuggled in through enemy lines [...]
Genius Hours
Kat Lytkowski '20
I regret all of my life choices thus far, beginning at the idea of my birth [...]
Seattle Rain
Alexander Frank '20
Soccer nets sway gently / in the wind and rain [...]
Marble
Makayla Gayden '20
The first crack was unnoticeable / Tiny, it started at the tip of her head [...]
the arrival
Skye Harris '21
Inside a small, carpeted room at the end of a narrow, never-ending corridor [...]
Cold Blooded
Spencer Knerr '20
“You don’t want to go to Heaven in an alligator suit [...]
The Hospital Room
Hannah Park '23
i walk into your room to see you / your blue dress just as clean as always [...]
Botany Major
Spencer Knerr '20
Tristan first noticed the flower as he sat in Horace Park, the top beam of the bench digging into his back just beneath his shoulder blades [...]
On Cambridge Road
Sanjana Paramesh '22
All I can hear is the click of the gears of my bicycle as I ride down the streets of Kendall Park [...]
Next Time
Alexander Frank '20
There was a loud, gravely, bouncing, scraping sound and my sister turns and gives me “the look”. [...]
Shovel
Aaliyah Sayed '21
I can tell what’s for dinner by the smell that wafts through the house [...]
Determining the Velocity of a Spinning Sphere
Kat Lytkowski '20
I imagine a seven-year-old boy, with a blue tow truck T-shirt and shaggy brown curls [...]
The Mystery of Faith (in a Minor Chord)
Kat Lytkowski '20
She is kneeling palms raised wide, pointer fingers tracing a sundial [...]
Word Recipe
Kat Lytkowski '20
“Fudge. Fudge. Where is the chocolate coconut?” It’s the fourth time this week Nina has made truffles for Gammie Josephine [...]
Palpitations
Holly Teti '21
My resting heart rate is 98 BPM. / the cardiologist says that's a little fast. [...]
Thieving Tempest
Camille Scordis '21
She picked him up and flew him down the bay, / The mistress of the cold and salty air [...]
The Brain Manual
Krista Caasi '20
Thank you for installing The Brain™ v1.7.0, the portable office complex in the head that helps human beings function [...]
The day the sun vanished
Nikita Bhardwaj '21
my sisters and I spin / dreams of willowy gold as ruby / rain raps at our windows and doors [...]
Driving.
Eleanor Ding '22
I’m driving the old blue Honda on the sixty-five, SUV’s coasting by, roar whiz zoom [...]
stories in the dark
Hannah Park '23
alone at night / you whisper millions of dreams [...]
bean town
Skye Harris '21
four-twenty-seven train from o'hare international airport to west chicago [...]
