Lazy Summer Afternoon

By Isabelle, TIWP student Peach tea on a Sunday afternoon wooden porch and crystallized sugar mornings like honey evenings like scotch And every soul in the county knows 11pm is the best time to see the fireflies against the treeline And every kid in the house knows that after church there will be a big […]

A Girl Like Me

By Izzy G., TIWP student I think about the girl in Texas, or Georgia, or Alabama, sitting in the back of her Latin class, hiding behind her headphones, and her braces, and glasses and frizz. We aren’t that different. But she doesn’t dare put a bumper sticker on her car that would indicate that she […]

If You Could See What I See

By Loryn Nieto, TIWP student If you could see what I see, your eyes would light up with the bluest flame. An ocean of chills would wash over your skin and leave you sparkly with salt crystals. The sky would reflect in a thousand tiny mirrors giving you slices of a sunset in every perspective. […]

Push and Pull

By Isabelle, TIWP Student Her cheeks glowed a pink sunset, her eyes, the blue horizon. How new and enticing this feeling is: warmth bouncing between his arm and her shirt, his skin and her shoulder, his blood and her blood. How fresh yet bizarre, the feeling of his breath, her cheek, his smile, her blush, […]

The ABC’s

By Emily C., TIWP Student I am an abstract aardvark, answering astonishing arguments. I am a blubbering balloon, baffled by the big brain. I am a curious centipede, crawling to cure craziness. I am a defiant dog, defending deliberate discussions. I am an enormous elephant, evening everyone’s emptiness. I am a ferocious feline, finding fresh […]

Tell Her

By Izzy G., TIWP Student Tell the daughter she is fragile like a bird. She is fragile and can’t be spoiled, not spoiled and not sheltered, not left behind the shoulder, or alone on the bench, not looking in the mirror and afraid of what looks back. It takes time for the fragile shell to […]

Ocean Sage

By Sophie Bubrick, TIWP Student I love the sea. But I couldn’t love the sea without the air, the salty, cold, invigorating air that nurtures and makes anything seem possible. I love closing my eyes in moments like that. I love feeling sheltered from all the responsibilities and petty worries in life. If I were […]

Loryn

By Megan Lewis, TIWP Student The words were already in the pattern of the music; they sprang from it. Painted in colors of rose and gold, poetry shifted into a symphony, into a lullaby. Just as water evaporates in the summertime and the trees shed their leaves, I found myself growing. Changing. In the music, […]

A Story of Love

By Ryann Drue, TIWP Student he touched her rosy cheek. passion. his finger traced the lines of the shadows on her face. intimacy. he lifted her chin. affection. he pressed his lips against hers. love. he gave her everything. everything she wanted. he was the everything that she wanted. and she was the same to […]