By Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student A dried up creeklike the intervals in joywe found silencewe found stillnesswe found greatness in our empty eyesour empty handsour empty heartsbut now the emptiness is goneand so is “we”but in this new tributary called “moving on”I’ve found more greatnessaccompanied with its usual emptinessjust a little less with only half […]

By, Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student I am lost in the world I createdto keep me content while I am still here’cause this world can start to get frighteningwhen you base it off all of your fearsThough I am grateful for all of the good times,and even more for those that were badI will pass time […]

By Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student I am a match ready to be litI am a puzzle waiting to be solvedI embrace my own emptinesstill my emptiness hastily dissolvesI am lost in the world I createdto keep me content while I’m still herecause this world can start to get frighteningwhen you base it off all of […]

By Harper McIntyre, TIWP student Maybe it was myself awakingmaybe it was myself forsakingmaybe it was my lack of ambitionbut we all know it wasn’tWhat’s the harm?Lots of harmIf it works and even if it doesn’twas it ever a waste of time?It was never a waste of timethough a waste of time it certainly seemedguess […]

By Evy Anders, TIWP student new woken eyes meetones of peridot and obsidianbeneath the daily curtainof warmth and white light hidden pockets of stowed timevery few beheld the fogmore hidden than the travelling turkeysmore secret than these dwellings a fresh closeness swirling green and purplestudy the soul, then carob and pennychew on the warm contentand […]

By Caroline Hesby, TIWP Student in the heat tongues come untwisted, floppy and snappyin the heat everyone is vulnerable and miserable,skin melted off and the uglier layers show from belowjuly’s drum beats the loudest–its weaving through a crowded street full of chants and criesits sucking on sweet cherries, red-stained fingers and lipsits doing without asking, […]

By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student Floating That water, it numbs you At peace with what’s true That water, a hypnotizing blue Letting the waves take me where they wish That cerulean sea, under its waves filled with fish Emotions never astray, those waves save me, keeping them at bay When I consider changing my ways […]

By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student You never miss A skilled archer, aimed with intention Young and beautiful you forever draw me in I had a mission To make you mine And just like you, I never miss We danced each other into love, neither one making missteps Light on our toes, we both knew what […]

By Annie Dashiell, TIWP Student The place that i gowhen everything seems downis back to the oceaneven when the leaves turn brownthe lapping of the wavesis the only thing on my mindno time to thinkno time to look behindyou can’t think about the futureor about the pastyour mind’s a peaceful numbas the waves push and […]

By Evy Anders, TIWP Student A nostalgia materialized into a dim stairwellhope lined these railings in redadapt to carpet and cherry woodignore echos and dare imagine a second floorrecall similar frames along the wallswatch red fade with fuchsia shadesand lean on the railing