Ortolan The docile man is most charmingWith fragments of bone stuck between his teethHearts and livers thick on his breathRepentant in his own pleasure He is prosperous, yet he covetsConsuming the delicate songbirdA veiled concubineShrinking from watchful eyes Charlie Juno Metcalf is a third-year Theatre major. When she’s not scribbling in a notebook or rehearsing … Continue reading Poem by Charlie Juno Metcalf

Waiting for the Sky to ChangeI hate beginning this without knowing where to startSitting beneath your canopy, orangelantern light illuminating my pen. Blue inkscratching out the words that don't exist yetPausing at the tip of my pen as my brain stumblesupon that one word. That leaves me hurting me morethan your candles and their dripping … Continue reading Poem by Quinn Mansperger

Cigarette Walks I watch my heart dissolveIn emotionless piecesHovering over my head Shriveled and curledTearless skullsAnd intricate, white lines Heavy feet and heavy stepsUnder the river, the streetlightsThe abandoned train station I watch, the last little bitBurn, on the veins of my wristLike a sparrow, in momentary bliss Becki Eaton is a sophomore majoring in … Continue reading Poem by Becki Eaton

At Night I sit alone at night on the sofa.The sofa sits alone with me.My television has images that are projected back at me.I sit alone at night on the sofa.The sofa sits alone with me.Morning is on its way is a thought occurring to me.I sit alone at night on the sofa.The sofa sits … Continue reading Three Poems by Eric Miller

Lessons on Snow We learned in class that white is all colors,yet no rainbow today. We learned at weddings,it is virgin pure (though they’d slept together);in due ambivalence, yielded ourselvesto the advent condescending out of heaven,its myriad doves, pentecostal,no two the same—we heard that from parents,who rest now where a snow quilttucks them in, along … Continue reading Three Poems by Russell Rowland

Aleesa Jordan is a second-semester freshman majoring in CJ and Environmental Science with a minor in History. She enjoys drawing, worldbuilding/writing, and running. She has three dogs, two at her dad's and one at her mom's, Teetee, Ella, and Macho.

A History of Wonder I.I am sevenMy first aware of this springalmost-summer dreamShort, and standing in my big blue house’s shadowI French kiss the dirtI taste every mineral,every rootMy gums are tight, my teeth roughI lick the iron in my molarsand those roots flourish within meThey entangle in my aortaI find it hard to breatheYet … Continue reading Two Poems by M.Z. Hopkins

Broken Echoes A child may manage To sing A small birdsong On a small branch Above a grave Clamoring With bone and ash Within a flock of Tombstones. We’ll Make Fine Corpses An old man’s skin blossoms with faded tattoos, his wrinkles chisel into dust. His flesh full of prayers sloughs To join the dead … Continue reading Two Poems by Patrick T. Meighan

“Yet, If I Picture the Face of Jesus, I Can’t Shake the European Blue Eyes”after Shane McCraeI know it to be false              this image Godhead with flowing blond locks     sad blue eyes, searchingthe face should be of a man whom I know is Semitic     I look aroundno one else seems troubledit’s not at all like … Continue reading Three Poems by Carlene M. Gadapee