The roar of bugs has replaced the din of car engines. The bees prey on our bacon. The crickets conduct an orchestra. My feet crunch, they hop, they burn from the rocks warmed by the sun. But they do not slap. There is nothing flat here. I touch an overhanging branch. It is an act […]
There’s a Place I Want to Show You
By Charlotte Houston, TIWP student There’s a place I want to show you. It’s green all year round and the grass shines with dew but it won’t make your socks wet. It doesn’t snow often there, but when it does everything is hushed the birds finally sleep and your steps won’t make a sound, I […]
Wasted Love
By Isabelle, TIWP student The world is dripping in wasted love. Can you see it falling from the skyscrapers? Can you see it soaking in the mud? Flooding bedrooms in lonely AM hours in crumpled up love letters, Lining window panes, Consecrating city skylines with all the times someone has looked out at them wishing […]
GPA Never had a Truer Meaning
By Madison Alvarado, Intuitive Writing Project student GPA, Grade Point Average, Three letters, one number. 4.0 Never good enough, 3.0 Why doesn’t she try harder? 2.0 She may as well give up on college, 1.0 Was she dropped as a child?
24/7
By Isabelle, Intuitive Writing Project student “You can’t be ‘on’ 24/7” This is news to me. You can’t be back to back hard work up until the heart attack. You can’t have school days and school nights and school sleep.
The Intuitive Voice 