A LITERARY JOURNAL FOR UNDERGRADUATE WRITERS

Disciple

  Walking along the double yellow line of a four-lane city street,   even the sun, intimidated, glints off his bald head then glances away.   His palms are like communion plates. The body and the flesh tread on yellow lines like dry earth beneath a divided sea.   I call the cops. 5’6″ Latino […]

Cat-Gods and Birdhouse Altars

  When I first met Selbi, he was a little white cat, and he was drowning in the mall fountain. No one else seemed to notice him splashing and mewing for help, so I knew he was a spirit. By the time I’d gotten him out and set him on the fountain’s edge, he’d taken […]

Freddy, We Love Your Ducks

  You scatter seeds at the park for the ducks. Not for the boy in a shirt of heliotrope.   You’ve made it clear. Your eyes are clean. Still your whistles cannot hide him from us.   With hands in your pockets, you twinkle in the house now when it’s dark.   You sail a […]