By Avery Corey, TIWP Student It’s an unseen mountain growing on your shoulders, grain by grain,until even breathing feels like lifting stone.The pressure stacks, threatening to crush me under its weight. It is impossible to break free,clinging like a shadow welded to my heels,following even when the sun is gone.what if one can or will no longer stand […]

By Lina Norris-Raman, TIWP Student We roll to a stop, dust settling quietly,I force my neck out the window, craning to see thebison herd, to witness the indisputable peace.It’s a warm day, sun heavy on my skin,and everything should be simple.But there, by the lapping current, is one lone bison,letting the stream’s water lick its […]

By Lina Norris-Raman, TIWP Student Harmony’s not perfect, it’s a unique, diverse sound, a collection of people, a rhythm they’ve found.We come from different homes, different streets and places, with different opinions, ethnicities and races, but with just a bit of care, and some consideration,we can unite under one roof.With balance and cooperation.Each person is […]

By Lina Norris-Raman, TIWP Student You weren’t cringy, you were seven.You were just a kid, with a mouthful of mismatched words,and knees that carried the constellations of a thousand scrapes,from a fall, from a rise, from a life perpetually learning to stand. You weren’t cringy—you were a child discovering your orbit.You weren’t annoying, you were […]

By O. Deng, TIWP Student No, I don’t think that was funny.  No, I do not like you. No, I do not want to message you. No, I am not looking for a new person to come into my life and ruin my peace. No, I am not sorry for doing that to you. No, […]

By Karina Ciliegia, TIWP Student write down everythingthat you thinkit’s a matter of time before there’s nothingleft of mei hate to admit itbut how could i forget itafter all the years that have passed byi see your eyesflashing red lightslike a thunderous stormsongs about heartbreak they’realways lovebut sometimes that’s not trueit was impossible to live […]

By Kristen Ho, TIWP Student I am frustrated because I couldn’t kill the kitchen fly this morning.He’d buzz around the kitchen seemingly with no plan,but somehow he’d always escape my flyswatter, no matter how hard I tried. I am frustrated because I keep thinking about my homeworkand I’m struggling to write freely because of it.The […]

By Elisabetta Smith, TIWP Student its a surreal type of painwhen you have to convince yourselfto ignore it you can run into a windowthinking it was just airwhen you don’t know if it’s really a fightor just something else you made up in your headbecause if nobody else noticedthen it must not be therei wish […]

By Elisabetta Smith, TIWP Student in just a minutewatch my empire fall to the groundpick up the pieces turn back around and i don’t know what to sayi guess nothing’s really gainedif you forgot all of the pain again and i guess that i was wrongand all that i have is goneand maybe we can […]

By Giséle Anagnost, TIWP Student I wish that the crumbling ground we walk upon will stay steady no matter how we tread upon it. I wish that we could have strengthened each other in times of darkness instead of tearing each other down. I wish for trust and hope between us. I wish for what we […]