By Natalie Ware, TIWP Student Look at the starsLook how they shine for you You were so quiet todayThat’s usually meI’m not usually quietBut in this circumstance I almost always amBut you were this timeAnd then she cameAnd reminded me that I have nothingMy therapist would’ve said I should’ve talked to youWhen you were quietBut […]

By Natalie Ware, TIWP Student I know I’ve said it 100 times in 100 different ways to nobody but myself but everything is differentAnd it’s so strangeI hate when people act like nothing happenedYou are evidence that something didI hate when people act like this is the age when everything startsIt feels like everything’s already […]

By Natalie Ware, TIWP Student When I was younger I would wish I could curl up in a ball Whenever I got overwhelmed Some days I would wrap myself in a blanket and crawl on the floor Because I liked how it felt To pretend no one else was there And if they were judging me I wouldn’t have to […]

By Dalia McManis, TIWP Student Inside she is full of butterfliesA caterpillar is what they seeThey don’t accept her for who she isOr who she wants to beIn a cocoon she will hideFloat away with the rising tideUntil she can fly awayAs a butterfly

By Emma Wong, TIWP Student grief flewacross the Atlantic on an isolated journeyto plummet down like a dysfunctioninto the heart of a nation of stripes andstars of promise.beautiful land, 美國，that’s what we call the soaring landscapes, tumbling hills tapped like monsoon water flowing into green-grass pastures. just a mile away are effervescent desires,a high-rise, hedonistic […]

By Shoshana Castro-Root, TIWP Student I took the eraser,ebbed my eyeballs away.I took the eraser,brushed it across my raw,blood-battered lips.I took the eraser upon each fickle ear.I took the eraser—my breasts, gone!(Along with my heart.)I took the eraseraround the bulge of my belly.I took the eraser along the wayward curve of my spine.I took the eraser,resculpted the sloppy meat of […]

By Shoshana Castro-Root, TIWP Student My hair is like the weather—unpredictable and always changing. Sometimes soft and fluffy—a cloud on a sunny day! Sometimes wild and chaotic—a thunderstorm of curls.Oh, and if I’m not careful, unruly strands will sneak into my mouth like spies on an enemy base!Yes, I could tame my mane to behave how I want, but most […]

By Hannah Shagan, TIWP Student In French class we discussed the difference between Love, amour,and Friendship, amitié,and which you’d rather live without.  I wrote that there was not one without the other. Love is the best part of friendship.Friendship is the best part of love.Love without friendship is hollow.Friendship without love is merely acquaintanceship. Love is […]

By Catherine Foster, TIWP Student She visits me in butterflies.  I don’t know when she will arrive or when she will leave,She simply flies into my life unannounced. She used to knock on our door,She shaped my wings. But as all butterflies do, she dissolved before our eyes Yet she simply didn’t have enough time to transform. […]

By Audrey Lambert, TIWP Student I want it to be quiet.I want it to be so loud that I feel quiet.I want to scream‘til my voice sounds likeI smoke a pack a day. I want to be loud.I want to speak And not feel like I’m saying the wrong thing,The “why the fuck did I say […]