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Building a gingerbread home I support the walls, Reinforce with icing; Raising the roof to be strong. I carefully made the ginger-bread so, it doesn’t ginger snap, Under the weight of that roof. And on that roof, I line it with gumdrops, Hiding all its breaks and cracks. Faults in […]
Happiness Sappiness Take love (for example) No, I cannot love (it burns) So I write poems instead (sappiness) So I cry from my window (a troubadour) Yes, I am on an abandoned continent (emptiness) Call it my dark fate (a refusal to live?) But I can see lights on the […]
Misplaced pieces There is not A single thing about a person That is easily understood Humans are intricate, each unique Made up of endless puzzle pieces Forming this elaborate design of being Whatever powers may be They don’t create us as completed works We spend our lives scrambling to put […]
Poems by Adam Maue For me, summer is a time for travel. Two of these poems are inspired by my summers traveling across Canada, specifically seeing British Columbia’s mountains and spending time in the Okanagan Valley’s rich vineyards. Also, “letter to the editor” is a character piece about a newsworthy […]
Scarborough-based performance art group visit campus for a noon hour concert On Feb. 13, Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere (R.I.S.E.), performed a spoken word showcase at the University Centre courtyard. This event featured Lul Joseph, Jayda Marley, Levyi-Alexander Love, and Faduma Mohamed. The theme was black girl power and each of […]
Poem & Photos by Emily Matin Shame i am unworthy there is something wrong with me for letting it happen for not telling sooner for loving her like a sister despite what she did for being scared to trust Shame there is something wrong with these breasts that grew out […]
Jeremy Luke Hill Behind the Eyes Bloom behind the eyes – hot pistils of plumaged, magnificent pain; eye-stained feathers of peacocks keeping surveillance on all our sorrows; tears tie-dyed concentric. Proof to codeine, this kind is cast out only by prayer and fasting from all but locusts […]
Karen K. Tran I’m still growing Flowers wilt Slowly but surely Thorns thicken Flowers wilt There is a reason Thorns thicken To prick the finger of man There is a reason Advise the blossoms To prick the finger of man Leave me be, rooted here Advise the […]
Poem by Miryam Haworth, Feature illustration by Catherine Meng for Emma Gonzalez, 3/27/2018 She might be said to be beautiful were she not Invisible — obscured behind that which she stands for, or Naked in the best sense, seen by all in her purest form Which is not and […]
no river the top was iron heavy as i moved my hand across the surface there was a hissing sound like a snake as i reached deeper i felt a rope and pulled up a bag green and radiating i knew the river was lost as my eyes burned into […]
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