Poetry

"...your laurels coruscate..."

"... I'm falling fast into loamy soil..."

"...bull has your back Pamplona..."

"... I feel bad for both of them..."

"...a turn or counterturn just to shock..."

"...how will you pick the best one?..."

"...She was looking out through the window..."

"...Human, you have your honey..."

"...a network of pain interlinked..."

"...men—reaching, grabbing melons, tossing them ..."

"... the eager audience must wait..."

"...Bruce Lee said, “Don’t think! Feel!”..."

"Apparently, Schrödinger’s cat..."

"...you are abundant with luxury..."

"...Time and tide are turning..."

"...Hunting like I used to in my younger days..."

"...We won’t meet again..."

"...honeycombs are staple in a honeyguide’s diet..."

"...Freddie Mercury proves ghosts are real..."

"...it is the beach..."

"...a stern upholder of precision..."

"Since he met you..."

"...a line on which patina time will mark..."

"...I hear the calm 'pattering' these days..."

"...I touched her for one last time..."

"...A summer of blacktop memories..."

Yucheng Tao is a Chinese international student based in Los Angeles, where he studies songwriting.

Sriparna Mitra is a poet and writer from Kolkata, India with a Master's degree in English Literature and Language and a B.Ed. She has also qualified for NET JRF.

"...I moved North in a heartbeat to the Fillmore..."

"...Life syncs with vagary vicissitudes..."