Parley: Literary & Visual Arts – SITREP: Military Literary & Visual Arts – PPSC News: Link to The Paper
What, off-white existence.Quiet, until a stabbing Marks us red (& the unlucky deadHave nowhere to go — Messiahs are word of mouth, Afterlife out of the question)We live lives proofed by resistance;To be is to refuse their willingTo mark myself with that, familiar …
The peak of pink, she wears lilac spring chic. With morning skin, she bathes in Sun’s fresh gaze. The fog, viscous, a rising nest for sheep, lay heavy and deep like youth’s guileless haze. Iridescent light’s purple hum is sung …
Skinny Frail, eager for satisfying hunger but lost without past companyStarved of the warmth of their mother’s arms, or the kisses of their friend’s puppyBurned out by the ashes of their brain’s tantrums, they curl into a ball of peak …
I stood alone As you walked away. I should’ve known That it would end this way. A creak in the bone From between my vertebrate…Your necklace: a millstone. It aches me to say That I can’t let you in. Enraged, I abandon To the cold outside. The snow that I …
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, …
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 …
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, 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 …
