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Poetry
Self Consideration

Self Consideration

A man contemplates acceptance of the changing of the seasons and of life.
Ache

Ache

Broken thoughts and blank emotions characterize the entropic mind state of this prose poem's speaker.
Constrictive

Constrictive

The pursuit of hollow ideals slowly strangles one man in this ominous and brooding piece.
A Break in a Journey

A Break in a Journey

Like snails who find the shells cumbersome, we gave in, to the lilac above.
How Is It, Bronwen

How Is It, Bronwen

Childhood innocence and the impending emergence of wisdom are explored through the imagery of a young girl's smile.
Spruced Up

Spruced Up

On co-existence and its discontents.
Softly

Softly

girls are like triangles / pointed, mean and angry
Tanagra

Tanagra

A translation of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem by a four time Jeopardy! champion.
Californian

Californian

Relentless sunny California days lull the speaker of this poem into a dreamlike inertia.
"Bad Weather" and "Blue Impossibility"

“Bad Weather” and “Blue Impossibility”

You are searching for the map in your head thinking: "Where am I?" Listening to the repulsive sound of the winter sucking at the bones of the trees.
Crossover

Crossover

My sin–reading a comic book when she was going on and on about God or at least Samson–and said to me, "Now you know better than to bring that to class," meaning the Man of Steel, or at least his latest adventure.
Thursday

Thursday

Everything's a concession, you said, as we feed the insatiable media monster. Speak for yourself, I said, holding fast to the revisionist notion that self-abnegation could trump loose gossip in a heartbeat.