Blair Mitchell '25 Beneath the frost-kissed earth, invisible, asleep, A gladiator, bound in winter's embrace, sets fires ablaze with...

Camryn Jones '26 Falling Apples The air turned crisp, like the fresh breath of a newborn I hang on the tree With the perfect shade of...

Celina Bagchi '24 if eyes are the windows to the soul, mine must have closed long ago, because i don’t think i have one anymore. don’t be...

Celina Bagchi '24 Legend has it the moon came from a duck who laid its eggs on the daughter of the air. When the eggs cracked, the whites...

Joshua Wangia '25 what is love shall it be declared under the morning sun or whispered late under red lights is it sacred or carnal holy...

Michaila Matthews ‘26 Lost at sea an alarm comes as we call To land we can't see, no hope of return. Dark like the endless ink void,...

Celina Bagchi '24 imagine: two specks, bright against the lonely night sky swaying, as ceramic cheeks crack and luminous eyes meet in the...

Rowen Harbert '26 A thin strip of fabric Lined with little images of lions Speaks back to me Small holes are engraved from wear A simple...

Alycia Steck '25 I could sell my moniker in bottles For five quarters and a dime, but for you My name is a gift I slip in your palm. Each...

Joshua Wangia '25 the feeling builds up in your throat like the walls you are enclosed in. your eyes, panes of glass that might shatter...

Daniel Shin '24 In the stillness of the morning dew, The world awakens, fresh and new. A symphony of birdsong fills the air, Nature’s...

Daniel Shin '24 Beneath the surface of my quiet repose, A tale untold, in the marrow it grows. Silhouettes dance in the corners of my...

Melinda Shen '24 People who look like me were always the best at getting things done, at least that's what I've been told. But I'm not...

Nina Sager '26 On a rooftop in Brooklyn, We stood in the thundering silence As the building lights studied the sky The sparks danced...

Nina Sager '26 A day ago, you look at me, and laugh in unison, Our voices erupting the halls and threaten the window glass, The doors of...

Alycia Steck '25 Pomegranate. The fruit of the underworld, A word you can suck on. Pucker on sweet grenadine and a bitter taste from...

Steven Sterious '26 Between the dark and daylight There is dawn The dawn is in between the dark and the light It is the path to take when...

Julius Williams '26 We live in a doorway Where we can change the way we act, talk and present ourselves depending on the others around us...

Logan Shallow I arise from the land and come forth, Transforming the world from a bare, cold, death To the beautiful greens and blues of...

A series of poems by Maddie Donches. Each one tells a daunting story about prison life. Internal Battle I put on my badge Another day in...