The Tribune Fall 2023 Creative Supplement

CREATIVE SUPPLEMENT

CARNIVORE WALL (SEATTLE, 2023) / Hugo-Victor Solomon

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JANUARY-NOVEMBER Sean Holley January Like a speck of dust The rivers under your mind Flow without seeing April Fresh water salmon Let her sit in the icebox Until she wakes up July Three-part pattern An arctic wall of sub bass Solders my ears shut Hollow underside Limestone pillbug sculpture In a wheat field September

SANDEFJORD / Fanny Sachet

Water paperboard Octopus punches through it Suction cup cel-shade October Swamp-soaked scriptures Encased in blocks of stone Speak softly in time

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THE FEAST / Dana Prather

OUR BIG LITTLE WORLDS / Mason Bramadat

UNTITLED 1 / Victoria Forte

STUDY BREAK Natalie Co communed with the spirits lying on my bed feet dangling off staring at the ceiling until my eyes shut and opened into the clinic myopic driving down the road drifting in and out towards the hot air balloon at the end accelerate into the desert see the wild horses the balloon ever distant it’s nowhere New Mexico speeding down the road in flight opened my eyes before the printout foretold my prescription

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$2.75 Natalie Co Stripped the sheets, ran the machine on high.

OxiClean against the unwashed dreams, soaking in as the night resides, arched like a shower spray over my head as I lather right down to my core.

In due time there will be greens and sleep, morning routines with my silent face smooth and clean in the bathroom mirror; there will be me floating back down to solid ground, freeing my head from bloated time.

For now, I’ve stripped the sheets, paid my dues to the machine. For now, I’m holding out– thirty minutes till the beep, an hour and a half till I can sleep.

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LAUNDRY IN ITALY / Fanny Sachet

LIFE FORCE / Fanny Sachet

UNTITLED 3 / Victoria Forte

TANZANIA WILDLIFE 2023 / Antoine Payrar

UNTITLED 2 / Victoria Forte

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LULLABY OF FOREVERS Jiajia Li it is curious how time unfolds, it carries a pace, so languid and quick. call me irrational, but lately, as we mature, and life asks more of us, i harbor a silly wish for us to stay forever in this awkward fleeting phase between a fruit and a flower.

SELF LOVE / Lauren Nordstrom

i know it is too much to ask, an impossible plea, so, while we may, let us cherish this sweet melody. savor the pauses in between hearty laughter, hold me tighter in life’s changing weather. as you walk out of the front door, a final adieu, I implore you, look back at me, for a moment or two. for I will stretch my head as far as I can, and to your vanishing back, my eyes will cling. then, when my mind wanders back to you, and the truth settles in the quiet of this familiar room, i will find the solace to go to bed

ATOP GRIZZLY PEAK / Dana Prather

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A MORTAL LULLABY Anna Chudakov My breath drowns with the lull of the streetlights peering through my cotton curtains.

My thoughts fall ashen as I sleep, I sleep, and am grasped by the stare of a crow perched at the foot of my bed.

Mellow in her breath, she swallows my spite as I fall into a lullaby creased into my sheets.

UNTITLED / Anna Chudakov

She launches her chest over my bed.

Her wings swell over my neck and I am embraced by the scant span of her warmth.

I am cold. I am streaked with her grime as her coarse tongue splinters my bones.

I am cracked.

I am vacant, yet I spill in excess, for her to feast off the entrails of my mortality, and soar out the window, singing the whispers of my dreams.

Down by the river, with mulberry-stained hands, my brother and I sit backs facing, and look up to the hole in the sky.

DOWN BY THE RIVER / Alyssa Razavi Mastali

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Mika Drygas, Creative Director Drea Garcia & Sofia Stankovic, Design Editors Jiajia Li, Web Developer

Matthew Molinaro, Editor-in-Chief Mason Bramadat, Photo Editor Sainka Walia, Social Media Editor

Anna Chudakov, Multimedia Editor Arian Kamel, Managing Editor Athina Sitou, Science & Technology Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS The Tribune is proud to present the Fall 2023 Creative Supplement. McGill does not have a journalism or a fine arts program, this supplement reflects the abundance of creativity in students’ lives and artistic practices. We appreciate the range of submissions we have received, and the collective labour of artists and cultural workers that comprise the zine in your hands. Across these pages, you will find precise and gripping poetry, austere and profound photography, and raw and poignant illustrations. Take time to linger with these artworks, in the landscapes and imaginations they enact.

We hope that the supplement inspires you, as it has inspired us.

INFLORESCENCE (SEATTLE, 2023) / Hugo-Victor Solomon