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Campus Culture
Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression is a biannual publication of MTSU’s Honors College. Each semester a student-led committee receives entries of creative work, such as art, photography, short stories, essays, short plays, song lyrics, poetry, audio, and video from students and recent alumni. mtsu.edu/collage
Bird Lady, by Elizabeth Crouse (Art)
"Ode to Cobalt," by Kera Reynolds (Poetry)
Bike rides in the Nevada mountains and
automobiles from Bugatti. Stained-glass windows
and delicate book covers from pretentious authors. I praise you
for your brilliance. Eighteenth-century teapots
from Persia, sitting in the window
sill with time to spare. My palms,
plastered in clay, lay on top of yours
as the lathe spins gently.
Blue and grey lines stroke
the pot with the brush. Then, you
let the bristles glide
on me: soothing as goosebumps form.
Fancy ball gowns and handmade
jewelry. He grabs my tender
hand and locks me in his arms. You say
you’re insensible, but we watch the
summer skies bleed with warm hues of orange, yellow,
and red. And I praise you for your passion and patience, picturing
us drinking champagne out of fancy bottles,
eating black berries off your lips, deep conversations,
and wrestling in the grass as I trace
the freckles on your bare skin.
A Wildflower's Temporary Splendor, by Katelyn Parrish (Photography)
Mother Sea, by Kalila Muhammad (Art)
Will I Am Will I Might by Selah Burton (Art)
