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  • Blog
    • 2022 Poetry Collection
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  • The Garden Statuary
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    The One Where She Falls in Love with Him

    December 2, 2022 /

    The wind that we agreed was too cold for existence whips memories of you through every exposed crevice of my sweater

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    Maddelyn Renstad 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Caught in Your Riptide

    December 2, 2022 /

    I want to climb inside you  And listen to the gossip that runs through your blood

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    Maddelyn Renstad 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Tulips

    December 1, 2022 /

    i dreamt of tulips today

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    Shanai Tanwar 0 Comments
  • Announcements

    We’re Hiring: VP Social Programming

    December 1, 2022 /

    Do you like hosting fun events? Want to get more involved in the English department? Now is your chance!

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    UBC ESA Exec 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    dear my universe

    November 30, 2022 /

    the stars tell stories but not everyone can hear them. a night sky; under the expanse of the world– the watchful eyes of the cosmos what am i searching for?

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    Connie Liang 1 Comment
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    This Feels Like The End

    November 30, 2022 /

    Bleeding wishes held in your hands feel so far Hard water, the words unsaid

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    Olivia Oh 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    All I Know

    November 30, 2022 /

    All the machine knows is to operate All the spider knows is to weave

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    Olivia Oh 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Big Sun & The Crabapple Miracle

    November 29, 2022 /

    I Have you met me yet? – I am a small animal who is trying to fall in love with you. Oh, wait, no, that can’t be right.  – I woke up really slow at first and then all of the sudden. And all of the things I had been holding in my hands and in the space between my skin and my real self started to fall, which is to say I started to drop them, and then couldn’t remember how to pick them up again. I started to get smaller, and smaller, and smaller, until I exploded, until I met my real body.  – Have we met before?…

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    Cate Ducayen 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Love is an old t-shirt

    November 29, 2022 /

    Your love sticks like an old t-shirt  to my skin on a rainy day.

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    Lynn Shibata 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Party Leftovers

    November 28, 2022 /

    Music still turns from the hour, once hushed by the conversation of the hour.Candle wicks burn until their end, unattended.Steam from a sidelined mug makes the air, clashing perfumes and colognes, visible.Wrinkles on the couch like a basset hound.Table runner stained with half-eaten pies left on ceramic dishes with scratchy bottoms.Shared flannel blanket draped over a battered armchair.Milk in the pitcher, passed from cocoa to tea, collects dust particles visible in the white.Fire burns bright in the low light, unattended.The skin is tight at my laugh lines like lifting a heated glass, intentionally impressing.– The frost-filled town like a photo outside;now only I am walking amongst these mementos. GiGi Kang

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  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Changes

    November 28, 2022 /

    If I knew the words of your deepest revenge I’d read them over and over again

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    Isabelle Dina 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    The end is just the beginning

    November 27, 2022 /

    The end is just the beginning, but where does it end? What was once an endless ocean where you could fall deeper than anywhere else in the world now seems so close to shore. But you can never be too sure. It comes in waves, and when you finally touch the sand you were all too scared of, you feel the ocean you once loved drowning you till it feels like you can never breathe again, but you live. That’s the end. Because it never ends until you find your beginning.  Alison Wong

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  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    His First Love

    November 27, 2022 /

    I didn’t expect it. My first love; my first kiss from my lips to his

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    Royce Uy 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    TAG

    November 26, 2022 /

    You know how like/sometimes/new clothes come with those super long tags

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    Julia Moreno 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection,  Uncategorized

    Agape

    November 26, 2022 /

    If I could be a cloud

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    Jenny Xu 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    In Loving Memory

    November 25, 2022 /

    Dear Reader…  For context and as a content and/or trigger warning, my mother passed away a few  years ago. I found solace in reading and writing poetry. It lent a hand in articulating the complex  emotions and nuances of navigating through the past few years after losing someone so  important to me. The creation and collection of these three short, anonymous poems has been  a reflective and therapeutic experience. My hopes are that they can help you reflect on and  articulate similar emotions or feelings if you too have lost a loved one.   TLDR; Content/Trigger Warning:   This collection of poems deals with themes of death, losing a family member, parent, …

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    JC 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Intimacy

    November 25, 2022 /

    A whisper drips From the tip of his tongue And slides into her ear

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    Gabe Muzzolini 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Hymn, he was

    November 25, 2022 /

    The sunrise laughter, he was— His array of morning-bird chirping humor, A tear-turned-smile: Houdini’s final quest.

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    Shehab Khan 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Shame on me

    November 25, 2022 /

    Back bent backwards, knees  bruised          blistering          bloody

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    Saud Lingawi 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Alone in the River with Who?

    November 18, 2022 /

    Sitting on an island with who? I'm not sitting here with you.

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    Angela Thompson 0 Comments
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