A Midnight Farewell
our backs lie on beds of nails.
bones rest saturated and still,
scraping against frames of wood.
secrets
tuck themselves under bed sheets
whispering to dust bunnies, swallowing them whole. we
will
clasp on to each other.
our teeth bare and iced,
glinting alongside winter stars.
the morgue will no longer preserve this merged
body. we
linger
only to trace our slurred speech.
melting glaciers accept the downwards stream of voices
much like their own.
“we are already frozen,” the star says
to no one but the wind.
Karmiah Smith ‘26
This piece was inspired by experimental poetry. I took imagery from a dream I had and took stylistic choices, like the use of white space and line length to make it exemplify a dream-like state.
Even In The Dark
Rosaline Chen ‘28
I was inspired by the fish in my tank, how they are so beautiful and shine so elegantly, even at night. I wanted to symbolize that this beta fish, even though she is in dark murky waters, her damaged wings glow so brightly that everything around her becomes pretty, mainly conveying that, in a gloomy atmosphere, despite someone's flaws, their confidence can outshine everything dark.