Words A Poem By ABIGAIL JADE KOERNER Journal writing is for quiet If I don’t the words will spin in my head I repeat them like twirling on a dance floor I don’t want to forget them So I repeat them and repeat them and It’s like the pounding of a keyboard. They echo […]
Pruned A Poem By AIDAN FITZSIMMONS Figurine trees pose in the college yard, unclimbable, unfurling branches just above human reach, ungraspable. Today I studied one, circling softly, squirrel mind loud, searching for those subtle stairs only simians sense. They should be there; instead, there’s only stark featureless bark and dead gnarled nubs, wood belly […]
A Brief History of Time A Poem By JOSE ESPINEL The beginning spilled light. And helium. And time. Across the newborn plane These raced to fill the void And this process we know Is natural. The glass says so, When spilled sideways and Unless the vintage is good You’ll never hear me complain. Also no […]
Onwards and Forwards A Poem By ANA LUIZA NICOLAE Up and down and up and down It goes all round Comes and goes Through joy and woes Its spinning never stops On Earth so far the sky above The rift just flown over by doves Like the cycle of the crops […]
The Price By Remedy Ryan The tourists trampled the sunflower field for the perfect Instagram shot The field reduced to useless, golden ruins Remember when we were born? Our mothers cried for us then Little fools To think that beauty could exist Without pain One winter night we rubbed each other’s hands […]
Untitled I By Jose Forgive me, Gentle paramour, For showing you how Soft lead remains yet lead And how iron at a distance Appears liable to indention, Welcoming a hand to an altogether Unpliable surface. My deceit made so similar By unwilling nature of the thing, I hope you are merciful enough to realize […]
By Remedy Ryan the song says “modernity has failed us” and we bang our heads in agreement what else can save us narcissistic loners in the underbelly of empire yearning for love Remedy Ryan ’21 (remedyryan@college.harvard.edu)
(A poetical study of what we inhale) By: ANA NICOLAE It’s all in the air Fumes, body, soul Your breath stagnates the atmospheres of people Your body disintegrates in particles of dust Your soul pollutes the heavenly skies And yet you breathe And yet you grow And yet you die Whatever comes to be Innovation and […]
By Abigail Jade Koerner Remember when we used to read? Now, between every page I see I check up on my Instagram feed Real faces smile back at me Not the faces my mind wanted them to be Can’t see clearly The words become blurred Time ticks away My phone battery dwindles just like every […]
A Poem By Remedy Ryan It’s too early in the year to wear jackets so we rub each others shoulders as the wind whistles past A year older now we know where we are headed but we still whine about the long walk You’re hit with the saline smell as you push yourself […]