Just Right

By Audrey Lambert, TIWP Student “you’re so shy” they say,“you’re so quiet,”but, don’t you knowhow loud it is in my skull?you can’t hear it, thoughts like a spinning top.sorry i don’t feel likespeaking to you.nothing personal,really, it’s justi don’t think you could navigate these echoing canyons.i can barely read themap myself andthe white water’stoo dangerous for you.trust […]

My Life Map

By Callie Fullop, TIWP Student North is maror on Passover, or when I hula-hoop at recess. South is jump roping, and gymnastics, and playing with toys. West is playing music, and singing, and dancing. East is laughing with my friends, or taking a hike in the woods, or baking with my mom. And North, South, […]

From Here to Each Other (part 1)

by Violet G. Collins, TIWP Student Once upon a time there were two girls who were the most popular girls. One day, they were in their classroom working, when their teacher called roll. She said, “Emerald…” (that was one girl’s name). Then she said, “Lily…” (that was the other girl’s name). They were very happy, […]

Childhood Gods

By Clara Becktold, TIWP Student After winter break ended, I dreamt that I was already at high school graduation. My childhood was officially over, and all my classmates and I were ready to go out into the world and live our lives as adults. I remember thinking, “How could this be? Just yesterday, it was […]

Circus Syndrome 

By Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student I feel exposed. I’m in a ring with a thousand people surrounding mebut not too closely, there’s distance within it: emptinessfocus my clothes space.  but no eyes, all of those are on me.  as is the spotlightan eerie iridescence that switches on when im least ready that’s the magic of circus syndrome.not so much […]

The Bone Fairies

By Annabelle Kennedy, TIWP Student They called them Bone Fairies.  They were said to be tall as giants, with gray skin, dark, empty eyes, and tall, curving horns made of bone, ridged and sharp. Dust-colored braids hung around their heads, the color of stone. Their faces were lined, and they had sharp teeth that started […]

From Bug To God

By Annabelle Kennedy, TIWP Student I know you created me. I know you created me, and everything and everyone. I know you created some creatures to be small enough to be mistaken for a grain of sand and some To be big enough to pierce the clouds and make them bleed the rain that feeds the EarthBut […]

The Eternal Protector

By Viviana Sanchez, TIWP Student “All the ingredients are here, which is gratitude…to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,telling them all, over and over, how it isthat we live forever.” — Mary Oliver The ocean is alive, always. The waves are the heartbeat of the Earth. Clams bring bubbles up to the […]

I See You

By Reagan Kaelle, TIWP Student For those who are silent, I see you. For those who scoff at women in positions of power, and who look away when the protest signs are graphic or images of bloody hangers flash across the screen, I see you. I am all seeing, my eyes burn across the country […]

Happy Fourth of July

By Erin Hambidge, TIWP Student Firework or firearm, red, white, and blue explode across the sky, colors of mourning for a country riddled with bullets:  land of the free, home of the brave. Our strongest soldiers are schoolchildren  armed with clear backpacks and the fear that one day, shelter-in-place will not be enough. Empty buses, […]