lyrical prose

Poetry·Rou Rou Sem — Autumn comes alive through sensory comparisons — rainbows after rain, warm pumpkin seeds, leaves showering down, and sun playing hide-and-seek with clouds.

Story·Christine Wang — Wind personified as a destructive force tears through a forest, damaging willow, birch, and reeds while warning of fighting spirits.

Poetry·Sophia Famolari — A prose poem explores mirrors as metaphors for self-examination, suggesting we must break and reconstruct our perceptions to find truth within reflection.

Poetry·Sierra Elman — A speaker recalls childhood memories of braiding sunlight and being carried by her grandmother to meet the sun, until darkness intrudes on the reverie.

Poetry·Sierra Elman — A moment of solitude in the shower becomes a meditation on breath, heartbeat, and the harmony between body and rain.

Personal Narrative·Mark Chen — A boy leaves his childhood apartment and playground behind, struggling with loss before slowly transforming his sterile new home into a place that holds his memories.

Poetry·Gia Koo — A child observes a lime tree through the seasons, noting its winter bareness, spring birdsong, summer growth, and autumn abundance of leaves.

Poetry·Ida Wiesenfeld — Swallows move through a day from dawn to twilight, their appearance transforming with the changing light from silver firs to moonlit wings.

Poetry·Sylvie Zubaty — A meditation on weightlessness and tranquility builds through philosophical comparisons until the speaker climbs a mountain to grasp the sun and fall.

Poetry·Rose Torrey — A summer evening unfolds through sensory details — soft light, rushing water, owl calls, and moonlight stretching across quiet land.