ADOLESCENTS by Nikki LaPierre

Toxic seeds spill from glossed lips and sprout from your toes. The empty syllables climb your legs, infest your stomach, take over your heart, wrap around your brain, and burst from glassy eyes. Uproot them.

Mary Boshar ‘20

So Called Safety Scissors by Abbey Charlamb

I think it’s pretty scary How quickly I can Cut someone out of my life. I am so quick to grab The so called safety scissors that I never remember how impossible it is

To cut someone back in. On my nightstand sits a Family portrait with a lot of Empty spaces.

I think it’s even scarier How rapidly I can Spit words out of my mouth, its

Perfunctory like Brushing my teeth. I hate you, Is drooled into the bathroom sink.

Toothpaste words My mom warned, Will never be able to Be squeezed back in.