Softness Breaks Quietly you’re breakfast in bed takeout when it’s raining jumping over cracks in the sidewalk lying on fresh laundry after a shower skipping down an empty street but we fall you tear out a page and leave it with me you smile with your eyes and hesitantly touch don’t start without me! but […]
I still can’t bear to wipe away the tears and constellations you painted across my face All I see in the mirror is the unfinished painting you made of me: Untitled Sleep The best sleep is the kind you sneak away with My illicit affair She creeps up from behind and surprises me I’m stolen, […]
For Taiwanese Cultural Society members, Wednesday dinner means family. Even though the food is standard dining hall fare (with an occasional grass jelly dessert), the sense of community always leaves members wanting seconds. Such meals happen every week, when the small but close-knit TCS gathers in the Eliot private dining room to catch up on […]
When I drink boba, I think about my siblings. My sister Lucy sticks with the classics—black, jasmine, Earl Gray—all guaranteed to be very good. But my brother Jasper gets a little outlandish. He orders the wild, experimental drinks, like cheese and matcha yogurt with watermelon jelly—concoctions that feel like some sort of crime. Lucy and […]
In the city where shadows came to life, we were overjoyed (after the initial shock). That day, it was an immemorable rainy Saturday morning, with that kind of constant downpour that makes you forget how a clear sky looks. But when the clouds parted, the shadows suddenly came to life. It started slow. We noticed […]
is twilight over? Do you remember how the plastic firesdanced away as we tip-toedlate but unworriedI only remember you turning back for my smilewhen you thought you recognized the song Do you remember how many timesthe wheel spun and how manytickets we wonI only remember you asking that mother topress our picture intothe shape of […]
