by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
A Tzintzún (Hummingbird) Emerging I don’t really know who chose who.I just stopped holding my heart’s emotions andthen, when I was about to die,you appeared! There you were, a little Tzintzúnwaiting to embrace the light of the sun,to penetrate with your body that...
by Breanna Byrd | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
afloat Water is Life We all begin, cradled in the water. The storm of our mother’s womb, we, torrential in our desire to be known and know the world, initially seek out of the water. But it is the first home we have ever known how to be in, and the water, no matter...
by Alyssa Ranola | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
Soulmates I. Walking in the park at 12 on a Sunday, watchingthe trees and people writhinghow could they have risenso early? I nearly droppedmy Cherry Delight ice creamwith blue M&Ms (The tree branches cross-hatchedabove our straw hats hidingus from sorrowful sky...
by Nanya Jhingran | May 19, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2021
The Princess Writes by Candlelight Artist Statement: I first came across the myth-like story of the infamous “Royal Family of Oudh” in Ellen Barry’s New York Times piece titled the “Jungle Prince of Delhi.” Begum Wilayat Mahal and her two children, Prince Cyrus and...
