Poetry – Graphos

My Secret Monster/Brynn Schintgen

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

I lived with a monster. not the under-your-bed or the hanger in the closet kind, but a real, live monster. She didn’t seem like one though; her face was kind, she gave the best hugs, and told me that she loved me. But then the monster would come out, snarling and teeth bared, she’d rip Read More …

I Promise/Chris Cornelius

Posted onDecember 17, 2022Leave a comment

I promise to study more I promise to not procrastinate I promise to take Prince on a daily walk I promise to be more organized I promise to make my bed every single day I promise to be early to meetings and appointments I promised to smile more I promise to look for the good Read More …

fatal/Em von der Ruhr

Posted onDecember 17, 2022Leave a comment

remember when the world just stopped? the capillaries in our lungs inflamed and ignited like fireworks celebrating the end of life as we knew it. the fog of uncertainty was just as thick as the phlegm in our throats; suffocating us. we were weighed down by the heaviness of fever; it turned us malignant. we Read More …

Eldest Daughter/Brynn Schintgen

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

the question an eldest daughter faces after caring for her younger siblings and acting as a second mother offering emotional support to her parents all while achieving academic greatness who takes care of her? Brynn is a current English major at St. Norbert College, and is scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2025. She Read More …

Directions/Natalia Sokolowski

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 17, 2022Leave a comment

Through the rabbit’s nest Up, down, and twisted Come out the Looking Glass Twisted, down, and up Follow the cuckoo clock Until you clock the card Then leave and reprise Until you card the clock Then you’ll do-si-do And then you’ll do re mi Unless you’ve undered And then you’ll mi re do You wanna Read More …

A Brand New Page/Annika Morschauser

Posted onDecember 16, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

With a white page staring at you, it’s easy to draw a blank when it comes time to put something on it. My brain struggles with sifting through all of my “great ideas” to find one I actually want to write about. I type a sentence, shrug at it, and keep on going because sometimes Read More …

Where I’m From/Brynn Schintgen

Posted onDecember 16, 2022December 17, 2022Leave a comment

I am from the “hood”, as my friends like to say though they look down on me, those were some of the best times (riding bikes with neighbor kids without a care). I am from the inner-city, feeling out of place at a school full of rich kids. From thrift stores and hand-me-downs, while my Read More …

3 Poems/Olivia Augustian

Posted onMay 31, 2022June 1, 2022Leave a comment

The Things Worth Coming Back To I’m from a red brick house, a sweet ranch built on a large plot of land. From cornfields and cow manure, freshly mowed grass, the smell of pavement, and birds chirping as the sun comes up. I’m from the big Oak Tree, from the Sandbox, the Treehouse, and the Read More …

Hazel Darlin’, What Will I Do When You’re Gone?/Kaitlyn Herman

Posted onMay 31, 2022June 2, 2022Leave a comment

What will I do when you’re gone? When my arms wrap around the embroidered pieces of your body one last time. Intertwined with ephemeral linen bedsheets, soft velour hands cling onto the little girl I once was. Grey ancestral sprigs climb up from your five-foot-two stature. Brushing my cheek— inhaling freshly cut gardenias. This is Read More …

Daydreaming and Living/Maeve Carraher

Posted onNovember 15, 2021May 29, 2022Leave a comment

How charming it would be to return to that expanse, That ever curious mold perpetually reformed and shaped And full of the remedies to my laments; Whatever perfect notion my ideal self could inhabit Become one with. So effortlessly it used to captivate me. Oh the possibilities were endless, The stories complex with swerving plots, Read More …

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