Ava Johnson ’29 I pray for a blessed chance to hear you I pay attention to the enumeration of your words I count each vibration of your phonics A hum of your voice smooths me Slowly touching my skin The direct contact by a perk …
Creative
Salsa of the Porcelain Guest
Andrea Peralta-Villa ’27 I never knew how to danceto tambourines that split the air,trumpets coughing out orquídeas.I watched in awewomen with hips wide as cuíca drums,pounding rhythm with every sway;men shrugging off tempests like sweat.But the glass-boned guest knew,her feet drumming the floorlike birds against …
Down the Line
by Nate Hanson ’28 I wonder Did the 17th century French Protestants know they were making history, When they threw the Catholics out the window, thinking, will I survive this revolution? I wonder, did the Russian junior, now-soldiers, chest tighten, when he heard that Franz …
Round Midnight
by Caleb Silver ’28
And of Model Boats
Excerpt from “My Growing Collection” 2025 chapbook by Scarlett Svoboda ’28 Water scales the horizon in hopes of finding a resting home. It crashes at once to answer the calls of the moon, meanders between rocks and waits understanding its place for fate’s foaming waves. …
