The Intercollegiate Literary Magazine

Poetry

The Shelves of an Adam’s Apple

(University of California, Berkeley)

In the first shelf of your Adam’s Apple, I am an angry exchange of smoldering dialogue. I am a chipped-off expletive, nursing an injured

Whale Fall

By Charlotte Milliken

A pause, pregnant, at last conceives a newborn carcass.

Sioux Lookout

By Connor Fife

(University of Southern California)

Matching tan cargo pants and button-up shirt, I try to channel the intelligence and insight Of my two idols, Steve Irwin and Bear Grylls As my grandpa’s 2005 Chevrolet Astro van,

As They Crumble

By Isla Suess

Bells as they clang to beat tanned skin and bones (ashes to ashes is all well and good) Fear of the sun and a change in her tone (not sure I get it, not sure I should)

Fred the Llama Astronaut

By Bobby Becker

(Tulane University)

But while Fred’s life was happy and safe, Deep down, he yearned to go to space.

Flea Brained Fool

By Jack Yonover

(University of Southern California)

I’ve become a flea brained, flea brain, flea brained I’ve become a tree brained, flea brained fool…