Deserts | Poetry | Akash Manickam | 7

Snow In Texas

Poetry | Arnov Lahoti | 8 Photography | Jack Frary | 7

It’s everywhere in stories In novels, picture books, paintings Kids long for it For the joy it brings Snow angels, snowmen, snow forts, and snowball fights Endless hours of fun With no school or homework to worry about Just hot coco and numb fingers

Running inside to grab a carrot or scarf And rushing out again to tend to old Frosty Icicles hang from cars, houses, and garages

Yet I wait, Year after year For just an inch Of beautiful, white snowflakes Frozen tears of heaven

But over and over again, My hopes fall For just a hint Of fantastical wonder

DESERTS

Poetry | Akash Manickam | 7 Photography | Oliver Peck | 7

Deserts of sand, deserts of snow, Barren, empty, filled with sorrow, Deserts of hot, deserts of cold, Places of no tomorrow.

Deserts of war, the product of man, Locked in an endless fight, Deserts of stone, deserts of bone, Sleeping in eternal night.