List of 20 news stories.

• Apologies

  Kainda Nzinga '25
  We sat there. Clenched knuckles and gritted teeth. Knocked out baby ones in bags under our respective pillows...
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• art museum

  James Jeffery '22
  Shipyard silhouetted against the sunset 

  calm yellows and muted oranges hold hands and whisper friendship to each other

  impassioned reds dance with the blues and blacks of a bruised autumn evening

  above the ocean so serene it sings the ships to sleep...
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• black and blue

  Anonymous
  I ooze with 

  almost there! and close enough. 

  Mediocracy infiltrates my life and seeps through the cracks of my deficiencies. It hardens and solidifies
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• Courte improvisation

  Charles Wang '22
  Masses noires tremblant dans la rue 

  Capuches humides couvrant la chevelure

  Une chaîne lourde toujours tendante...
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• Driftwood

  Julia Murphy '23
  There are some people

  who emanate warmth

  from their smiles...
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• I Was Asked to Write Freely

  Ranease Brown '21
  Free write, 

  With liberty put thoughts to paper 

  Exercise the few rights you have in response to the rights that you don’t...
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• I wish you had brought me flowers

  Abigail Murphy '23
  It was weird flying again.

  I had to sit on the aisle seat

  The man next to me wanted to sit in the window.

  Said it would help his arthritis...
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• Mars

  Prairie Resch '21
  Tell me the stories

  Of those far-off shores,

  Of distant planets...
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• Retribution

  James Jeffery '22
  I once dreamt of you and I in India.

  Your smooth face and my beaten one

  Slipping in and out of crowds...
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• Self-Portrait

  Maisie Bilston '22
  I am the yellow light that pools in the corners of hollow houses

  Slips and slides, sweet honey on polished empty floors.

  I am your reflection in the mirror in the hallway...
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• We Turn

  Caroline McCarthy '22
  The GPS says

  It’s a ten minute walk

  We take the trek...
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• among the gravestones

  Sophia Schaffer '23
  A bent old man in the cemetery,

  the flowers he did tend,

  White lilies unfurled at his feet 

  to watch his life transcend...
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• Late August

  Evan Migdole '22
  8:00 am: How does the day begin?

  The Sun Star has a two hour head start.

  People are chirping like gulls as they walk by...

   
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• Seeds

  Caroline McCarthy '22
  The seeds sit

  Shallow in the dirt, in a pot

  That belonged to my uncle. From...
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• Sounds of Summer

  Caroline McCarthy '22
  The sounds of summer for some

  Are sounds of mischief and fun.

  The grains of sand sliding between their toes

  Swimming amongst friends and supposéd foes...
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• Glass is Only Another Form of Sand

  Prairie Resch '21
  Plants on my windowsill.

  Bird which hit my window this morning
  

  (and I wonder if it was my fault

   
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• Follow the Sun

  Julia Silbert '18
  In all his dreams,

  The house lights were turned off. 

  Skin drawn over the windows, 

  But breathing.
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• in a nursing home

  Naomi Tomlin '19
  the first time i saw my father cry was in a nursing home.

  we sat on the balcony overlooking a parking lot and an airplane hangar.
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• Locked Out

  Lionel Louis '18
  I’ve got the keys to success.

  They’re hangin from my pocket now.
  
  

  I always have known that I

  Wanted to be successful.

  Make money, get employed, and

  Hopefully

  Die happy.
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• please be quiet

  Maliya Ellis '19
  What are you saying?

  I can’t hear you over the--

  Listen! -- birds’ sweet syrup sighs

  Like shower mist
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