Forgive Me My Trespasses
There is an almost religious clarity that occurs when she washes her hair. A comforting sanctity that both literally and figuratively...
Elvira Taku
Dec 24, 2018
Abandoned Soccer Ball
I find it in a prickly shrub—leather torn, discolored, and misshapen. Nearby, a patchy soccer field can be seen, the boundaries marked...
William Valle
Dec 21, 2018
Origami Rose
Fold unfold fold. The faded paper, losing its color from the constant poking and prodding. Its once bright love filled color now lost....
Karina Lew
Dec 18, 2018
My Fingers Fly Fast on my Saxophone as I Try to Keep up with Coltrane
Your improvisation never seemed to run out of ideas. You placed two chords next to five just to return back to ones. You jumped from...
Jason Devaraj
Dec 15, 2018
Lighter
He always managed to lose it, blaming her even though it had merely slipped from his worn denim pocket and into the unexplored crevices...
Cali Sullivan
Dec 12, 2018
Physics II
Mr. Striker's dull voice and lack of enthusiasm leave me staring at a smart board with words and symbols I do not know. What...
Jake Cartisano
Dec 9, 2018
Untitled
He got home from work at eight, the same age she had just turned last week. They had about an hour before the MET closed and it would...
Katherine Gotard
Dec 6, 2018
Little Blue Fish
As it swings in the air—attached to my hook at the end of my line, begging for water—I grasp it. I begin to examine it and stumble upon a...
Keara Shea
Dec 3, 2018
Untitled
The students oiled their trumpet valves and applied rosin to their horsehair violin bows before their rehearsal started. Excitement...
Jason Devaraj
Nov 30, 2018
Untitled
"Art is an expression," says the teacher, her encouraging voice begging us to produce something new. I stare at the canvas—blank, empty,...
Skylar Pekarek
Nov 27, 2018





