Creative

Ellen McAllister ’24 Kelsea is blasting on the stereo, We’re sitting on the floor in our dorm Playing mancala. Soon 3 hours  Have gone by so we whip out the Polaroid, Taking goofy pictures of our Friday night spent Together.

Emma Shrinker ’24 I stave off the I don’t knows and  One last times with just one more  Game, episode, silly photo  One more hour spent   On uneven floorboards  In the glow of orange street lamps and   Unending laughter.

by Wyn Caudle Ethereal light swims behind you I see the shadows cast by regrets Looming and swarming without nets Reaching and crawling to latch onto anything Everything The nearest thing. A limb? A hat brim? A fresh trim? I move It moves I turn …

by Henry Walter-Wilde Where am I? Lights are out, the room is dark. Think there’s movement, dart forward Bumping into something, a noisy cascade. A glint of light, bolt again Another collision, a crunch this time. A silhouette cast behind a curtain, Grasping through, hands …

by Gabriel McCreath When I mention you, I will not say Your father appeared to me in a dream you fell off the face of the Earth one summer  silhouetted against the sunrise of Mt. Auburn. cocooned in teenage gloom and terror’s teeth,  He mentioned …