Poem by: Caroline Levine Choices come to every manand what is done is yours to plan.For you know well the truth in action,but truth is never your reaction. And seldom has a day gone bywhere you stopped to wonder whythose around you have no shame, when it’s all you’ve to your name. So, when success is … Continue reading The Average Person
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Home for the Holidays
Written by: Sophia Eberhard Copyedited by: Marguerite Andrich It’s 6AM when I roll my overstuffed suitcase down the sidewalk to my beat-up Toyota. Rays of sunlight are just starting to peak over the horizon. Half-asleep, I start fumbling through my pockets for my car keys. “It’s way too early for this,” I grumble to myself. I … Continue reading Home for the Holidays
Love Letter to UF
Written by: Taylor DiPietro Copyedited by: Jordan Harrow To the View Outside My Window, I see Simpson Hall and the intersection of Museum and some road that isn’t long enough to have a name. There’s a large, elegant pine tree with its spanish moss swaying gently in the breeze. I wonder how long it has … Continue reading Love Letter to UF
Binary
Poem by: Derek Pena I felt a second heartbeat. It throbbed steadily, filling the gaps left by the first. The two rhythms fought against each other, but neither seemed to give in. I looked out into the vastness of space, finding nothing. Against the darkness, my chest appeared to glow. It was as if the … Continue reading Binary
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Poem by: Julia Garcia Apprehension, Anxiety, Worry, Fear bombard you like freezing rain. They soak you to your core, penetrating layer after layer as they chill you to your bones. They surround you from all sides and escape seems impossible. Until. You stand at the edge of a cliff, a precipice, a crossroads. A doorway. … Continue reading Home
Sentiment
Poem by: Nikita Patel Sadness comes like tidal waves with rolling wind and hazy eyesPain that lingers, lingers and lingers like the riveting fear of anger.The boiling cauldron of madness swirling in the salty night airMade from the fears and sorrows that build the bridges and damsOf the lives that we have evolved and the … Continue reading Sentiment
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