Landscape 1

Ellen Hanson ‘14

Check My Credentials

Ellie Shenker ‘12

“Why Don’t You Love Me” presents a powerful attack against sexism, providing a point of radical departure for bell hooks’s “oppositional gaze.” Beyoncé’s music video for “Why Don’t You Love Me” employs a subtextual assault against normative femininity, engaging stereotypes with a knowing wink that destabilizes their unquestioned role in maintaining women’s position as passive object for the male gaze.

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Mena Ahmed ‘13

Transfiguration of Daphne

Catherine Pikula ‘13

VI.

Dug her toes in dirt for rooting, hands shooting
into bark. Father witnessed her loose
leaves catching fire in the red of the sun.
As the geese took flight for a winter free
of snow, father cried at the frozen river–
will never have grandchildren that wander.

A Letter to the Highways

Naomi Washer ‘12

This is what you should do: lean over the edge of the guardrail on the lowest highway in the Stack. Hold on tight as huge trucks and semis hurtle right at you. The floor of this highway will rumble and the metal bar will shake, rattling your wrists. The trucks pass through and under you. It looks as though they’ll hit you every time.

Large Hadron Collider

Stanley Wong ‘12

Le Mot Juste

Anna Gyorgy ‘14

so simple he says
to fuck poetry and
not to feel it

Alice and the Ghosts

Leah Zander ‘12

Alice plays the genteel Boston hostess and ushers him into the parlor. Despite the vase of fresh flowers on the mantle there remains the lingering staleness of infirmity. Henry pretends not to notice. Of the many things Alice appreciates about Henry, perhaps above all, is the fact that he never bothers to condescend to her (as William never fails to) with conversational pleasantries. Instead he speaks to her as she imagines he would any of his brilliant friends. He is no longer writing novels, he says; rather he will devote his talent to plays and short fiction.

“My literary posterity, as it were,” he says, “shall be in a large number of perfect short things.”

Subay Motion

Stanley Wong ‘12

Translation 2- Painting of a Dog

Hannah Kucharzak ‘13

Eve

Julian Delacruz ‘14

Snakes all around, gnats in transit, young apples,
old apples. How precarious our situation turns
when we are judged naked in the light.

Salt

Eddie Sitt ‘12

Wife Life

Hannah Kucharzak ‘13

I wake up and relay my dreams to him,
whether or not he sleeps sideways or
longways, with me or not, beds are beds

and dreams are indiscriminate illusions.
I gain sleep tales in handfuls, even awake.

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Sierra Hollister ‘15

Roots

Eddie Sitt ‘12

Sestina (Gummo)

Julia Mounsey ‘13

There’s a thing, a brown thing about Ohio
It’s nothing like throwing marbles
It’s more to do with lying in the grass
Like my mother’s stomach, it’s a state of scars
She birthed me and felt ruined so she got a cat
When I was old enough I killed it with a bottle

Winter Farmland No. 3

Oly Shannon ‘13

Eurydice

Julian Delacruz ‘14

All I know is I got inside,
but not the way a man gets inside.

I sank into the earth with no shovel
where I became dim and agreeable.

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Emma Villavecchia ‘14

Stopped for the Night Halfway South

Ben Redmond ‘14

I remember the small twitching
of my fingers and knees when I did close my eyes, waiting for the saccade
of sleep to arrive, moving subtly the way dogs
sometimes do.

To the Heart of Youth the World is a Highwayside

Ohio Animals

Anna Gyorgy ‘14

he let the tiger out last
looking long into her wet eyes
before sliding the latch

Acedia

Eighteen

Mena Ahmed ‘13

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Camille Roccanova ‘12

Cloud Gazing

Sarah Fetterman ‘14

Ride the Waves

Zeke Wattles ‘15

My Talk With The Moon

Windowsill

Naomi Washer ‘12

I dug my fingernails into thick orange skin and peeled, peeled. Juice dripped on my hands while a settled quiet overtook the street.

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Abandon Ship

Paul Stoicheff ‘13

Big Blue Bot

Stanley Wong ‘12

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Emma Villavecchia ‘14