By Mina Talebi, TIWP student I don’t want to talk to you when I’m sad. I’m afraid that my tears might rise to ceilingAnd the lights will flickerAnd my lungs will shudderAnd I don’t want you there when I drown.Maybe my sobs will shake my bodySo hardThat my ribs begin to snapAnd you’ll be able […]
Sweetheart
By Maya Petzoldt, TIWP student “Hey- HEY!” You hear something- like repetitive snapping, and slowly crack open your eyes. As you blink the first thing you focus on is what is far above you. It’s dark, and reddish, like black rust. But then you focus on what is much closer, the tan hand snapping their […]
I’m Here
By Riley Faust, TIWP Student I heard it before I saw it. Not the crackling, lively sound of fire feeding on wood, but the screaming. The agony conveyed in loud, harsh sounds from the back of someone’s throat. The sound of panicked footsteps running over creaking planks. A name shouted from safety, begging its owner […]
The Whispering Woods
By Riley Faust, TIWP Student The Whispering Woods were strangely quiet. Soft, dewy grass blanketed the forest floor and silenced my footsteps. Rays of sunlight passed through the rough branches of trees, raining down light. It wasn’t warm, but rather a comfortable cold, a temperature that felt fitting among the dark, velvety bark of the […]
James Joyce
By Hannah Shagan, TIWP Student One day we went to this wonderful Italian restaurant for my dad’s birthday. It was in Lafayette on a street full of hit-or-miss restaurants and we were going in blind. We walked through their front garden in the settling November dusk. They brought us through a hobbit-hole hallway, round and […]
The Praying Mantis
By Audrey Lambert, TIWP Alumna On the day before I started my junior year through a computer screen, I watched a praying mantis walk into the ocean. I tried to stop it, but the surf rolled over the top of my bare foot and I watched it get washed away with sand and sea foam. […]
Let the Adults Handle It
By Reese Langdon, TIWP Student I didn’t believe them when they told me it was out of my control.“Let the adults handle it,” they would say.And these words were followed by sickening, screeching, silence, as I held my breath….When I was a kid, all I wanted was to “let the adults handle it,” as I […]
A Rock and A River
By Sol Dente, TIWP Student Down the hill and right a ways from my house lies a rock. I cannot tell you its size or its shape, nor what colors the sun choses to paint it as when it sinks below the waterline or how it feels to run a calloused fingertip over its bumps […]
Dear World
By Katerina Bonderud, TIWP Student Dear World, First, to this Earth, thank you. Thank you for being so nurturing and forgiving. You have handed out an olive branch through all our learning and growth as a species. You recycle yourself so you can endlessly give your care. You are beautiful with every mountain and valley […]
Regrets
By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student The first year of high school?It’s overwhelming, but don’t let it drown youIn the moment it might feel hard to let goI knowBut don’t box yourself in like I didToo preoccupied with homework, no time to talk, my patience ran thinBecause my programming said priorities before peopleBefore experiences, fun, laughingBefore […]
The Intuitive Voice 