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Rondeau for a Fox

Rondeau for a Fox

Becket Wendell-Evans February 18, 2026

I wrote you to be perfect, how you shine. From your bright eyes to the strength of your spine. You are my guardian angel, my sword. Cast from the contents of my heart I poured. Frisson and...

Tyrants

Tyrants

Emma Wall February 12, 2026

We are taught the word foreign before human. We are taught red and blue by those who are only able to see black and white.   But this is not about politics: This is about morals, our...

Now I Know Her Name

Now I Know Her Name

Becket Wendell-Evans February 12, 2026

Now I know her name as Soluna Ari, The great trust it took, just to get her to tell. Her name is alone, on the ears of me.   When we first met, I heard an unsaid plea. Empathy and fear...

My Clock

My Clock

Emma Wall November 11, 2025

My clock is ancient. The gold swirls capture the wooden frame. Rotted with holes, rusted gold. Tall, it leans as if waiting to fall. My clock. My clock energetic, the hands lively. Smudge,...

Becoming Me

Becoming Me

Ezra Rasmusen November 5, 2025

As the sun hides behind the horizon lines, the waves cave over. My heartbeat beats slower. The waves start to become me.   My sun soaked skin is laying along the board, A timeless...

The Waring Pacifist

The Waring Pacifist

Becket Wendell-Evans September 25, 2025

Although I prefer the pen to the sword A pen is for open eyes I am a warrior, disgusted with his craft Even so, on I must war Try as I reason, meaningful words fall flat Words are for open ears And...

A Dance With Words

A Dance With Words

Devlyn Golembesky March 7, 2023

My fingers danced across the keyboard, as I was in my own little world. Not noticing the clock ticking, as all I heard was the clicking of the keyboard. Each letter appears and all come together to create...

Not Another Hero

Not Another Hero

Elanor Fugate October 13, 2022

How many heroes dye their hair with the blood of the villains who wound them? And how many heroes brush their teeth with the spit in the faces of problems? The world doesn’t need another...

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