Laundry List, a monologue CHARACTER: NANCY. 30’s. HOUSEWIFE AND MOTHER SCENE SETTING: The kitchen of a family home. It is clean from regular maintenance, but has not had a thorough “spring cleaning” in some time. AT RISE: NANCY is at the sink, …
April Art Feature: Lupita & Salome Carrasco
Family Totem by Salome Carrasco, PPCC student This body of work is inspired by my love of birds and curiosity about my Amerindian ancestry. Being removed from the language and traditions of my ancestors brings me deep sadness and feelings …
Paper Moon by Mia Conover
Hey, canary bird Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons When an hour isn’t just an hour A little piece of eternity A paper moon But it wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me I don’t want realismI don’t tell the truth—I …
On a Small College Campus in Early Winter by Hayley Stoddard
On a small college campus in early winter, through the walkways daily, teemstudents who come to lay their sacrifices on the altar of some intellectual dreamwho sweat their foreheads for some precious gem of light, one and every one, they come, and I …
Sleuth by Hayley Stoddard
To be a poet is to be alone,to make friends with a penand be familiar with the feel of paper.But to be a poet is not always lonely,for there is inevitably an argument to be had with the trees,a compliment to …
An Ode to Walt Whitman by by Hayley Stoddard
When you sang the song of yourself, you said that you would filter and fibre my blood.You said that you would for wait for methat if I was lost, to keep seekingfor I would find you around some bend in the …
Transformation by Jill Wilcox
The evening sun was glaring as I drifted into my apartment. I was greeted by the sound of running water. Had I left something on? That’s when I noticed the gigantic bulge in the ceiling. The white gypsum drywall swelled, …
The Children of Bolling Air Force Base by Charlotte Kwong
We were the children of soldiers and airmen, and war ruled our blood. We terrorized the neighborhood with plastic lightsabers, garish nerf guns, and barbaric stories. We staged elaborate battles, splitting the neighborhood into warring factions with which to destroy …