I want to go back to that moment. I was just a little girl, with shaggy brown hair I had cut myself. Walking barefoot down to the old smelly pond with a bucket and clear plastic cup. I was a forest fairy, I whispered to the flowers. Kissed the plants on their foreheads. Waved and nodded at the squirrels as… Read more →
Tag: Poetry
the summer you might see
Laura Fuentes Year: Junior Major: Film, TV, Digital Media Hometown: Fort Worth, TX dress swaying in the garden counting monsters you take an open palm of soft familiar scales with untrimmed fingernails scratching your back like the chalk on the sidewalk you know better than to cry but still you do and your milk teeth decay and your… Read more →
The Plop
Ashley Parks Year: Junior Major: Writing, Theater Hometown: Woodbridge, VA Don’t you love those moments in the rain as you siphon your body through the trees, usually rushing, in a fruitless race to keep dry. your foot clomps down one more time on the rain-soaked earth, fields of crystal-clear puddles, concrete and asphalt cauldrons and soon your socks are… Read more →
Moonberries
Ally Ameel Year: Junior Major: Electrical Engineering Hometown: Austin, TX You’ve always been one of those people. I want to grab your arms and spin you around like a child under a tree of Christmas lights maybe if you get dizzy your vision will blur into a dazzling display of colors an image… Read more →
Senioritis
Rachel Sneed Class: Senior Major: Writing Hometown: Coppell, TX Last semester… Desk sitting fingers twirling clock ticking head whirling Nap taker Netflix binger phone scroller pencil breaker Procrastinator dead calculator parking violator college graduator Unread emails blank pages tuition payments zero savings Sunday scaries alarm snoozes classroom dozes deadline approaches Day dreamer resume… Read more →
Behavioral Health
Michael Bennett Year: Senior Major: Film, Television and Digital Media Hometown: Arlington, TX Dylan’s fingers scatter over residential jigsaw pieces smelling antiseptic orange & gray bone-legs crossed When his hands find one small & chipped they scramble for its… Read more →
Pens ‘N Things
By: Ashley Parks Major: English and Theater Year: Junior Hometown: Woodbridge, VA Click Clack Pressure Release Feel the streamlined plastic slither across the surface of your creped skin. Or maybe the other way around. Angles Planes Corners Curves Explore the many facets and faces to the heights of the eternal mountain. Inhale, until you can fully sniff out the… Read more →
Leisure Suit Lesbian
By: Annie Brenkus Major: Music Year: Senior Hometown: McKinney, TX Leisure Suit Lesbian a valentine I want to grow old in Portland, and read poems in a coffee shop where they don’t serve cream. I want to smoke cigarettes inside, and treasure my old, broken things… Read more →
Lacey White Panties – A Tragedy
By: Paulette Watson Major: English Year: Senior Hometown: Alvarado, TX Lacey White Panties – A Tragedy A typical walk to my car interrupted by lacey white hipster panties laying abandoned on the seasoned sidewalk. Why are lacey panties deserted on the sidewalk? How does one even lose panties on a sidewalk? What if, the panties began to creep and crawl… Read more →
dissenters in the lawn
By: Mariah Gomez Major: English Year: Junior Hometown: San Antonio, TX smooth concrete separates seas of mixed foliage, immaculate, buzzed forest fur, shoved into shapes: trapezoids, parallelograms, semi-circles, yet trios of blades stick out in the turf, swaying in wait, the lanky dissenters. groundcover swells in the pen, meticulously molded by machines into level sheets, yet littered with taller… Read more →