Poetry
Edumacation
A desperate and delightful attempt to invoke as many gods as necessary to create a good poem.
Creative Essay
White Picket Fences, Green Trumpets, and Bisexuality
Curiosity leads to deep self-exploration and new thoughts on sexuality, friendships, and being unique.
Poetry
I Almost Married Opportunity
…but the speaker let her slip, and she found another man. In careful rhyme and meter, he tells us he’ll probably repeat the mistake.
Poetry
The Other Side of Lee
Trumpet: Weaving across the floor, Slipping out of reach Elusive, cunning, A fox outfoxing, hip with hot hips, She sizzles and twists Sax: C’mon baeeee-by! C’mon baby please! C’mon baby, c’mon baby dance with me! C’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon! C’mon baby dance with me! Piano: She: slip, slide, slither, glide. He: groove and […]
Poetry
Holy War
Amid a dry landscape of violence, “the taste of peace fills my mouth.”
Poetry
A Bunch of Nonsense
I am a super hero! I am the lingerie loving,Plum dancing, Popcorn serving,Potato eating,Viggo Aspiring, Moviegoer, I am… The Last General of the forgotten creed, The laughing Grand Mage of forgetfulness, The Ranger of the play grounds, The Arch Duke of the melancholy collaborators, The Poet who talks to little hairy fat naked Fay… They […]
Creative Essay
Daniel
In the form of a letter, the writer explores and questions the way he responded and reacted to a fatal accident.
Creative Essay
I Didn’t Know
At thirteen, this girl wanted to be wanted. When she says no to sex, she learns she does not yet want herself.
Short Story
Spinster
“She politely declines, preferring to spend her days in the soft sunlight, arranging the weary roses…†Inspired by the poem by Sylvia Plath.
Poetry
Complex Fruit
A concise metaphor on gender.
Short Story
In Arms
A young mother fights to overcome her hopelessness and make sense of the terror surrounding her, in the midst of a Maoist civil war in the writer’s home country.
Poetry
St. Francis’s Program for Gifted Children
The Socratic method meets its mystical match.