Beauty in Bloom~ Spring print lit mag

Green grass under toe Flowers peeking through soft leaves Birds chirp, sweet and clean.

Outside in Spring Poem by: Indigo Wolf, freshman* Green grass under toe Flowers peeking through soft leaves Birds chirp, sweet and clean.

Beauty in Bloom Fused Spring Literary Magazine

Soar and Sink Poem by: Tracy Lamptey, senior* Drawing By: Ashley Quick, junior

Drawing By: Pegah Smiley, senior

I want to soar at the highest peak along with the birds Free of stress Free of burdens Free of responsibilities Just Soar Among the beautiful clouds In the blue bright and beautiful sky I want to sink to the lowest valley Be playing in the dirt Be held down bythe gravity of life dreams goals But also, be a child again Be carefree Be free I want to do both Soar and Sink

Painting By: Bella Brown-Sparks, junior

Gossamer Poem By: Arthur Hertz, junior* Ambitious but lame in cravings for fame the hummingbird’s wings far too heavy to soar

“Won’t Get Fooled Again” By: Sierra Bowman, senior*

for no matter how daring or exceptional or wonderful these quicksilver filaments seem slated to be worn through undue tribulations an observer’s machinations what a travesty that obsession overtakes these young minds dreams of soaring from the children from the nest they rise naked driven to the precipice a bird born to fly “Hikari” By: Dylan Newten, junior

Painting By: Bronwen Deckard, freshman

A Moment Poem By: Gabriel Norris, freshman If I could have a moment of your time - just a second, just a minute Just however long it takes to get your attention before this moment slips through your grasping hands like water.

As you stumble blindly through the unmarked graves of what could have been

- your eyes unseeing, your heart unfeeling

You let this moment slip past you like the moment before it, and like the moment after;

Forever searching for what isn’t there. * To see more works by these students visit: bloomingtonnorthfused.org

Drawing By: Bronwen Deckard, freshman