For Valentines day, students were invited to submit their poems to the Aerial to be included in a collection. The prompt was “short-form love poems”, though they were also encouraged to write whatever...
If on your flight
You break a wing
Or lose a feather
Or forget how to sing
There will always be here,
Dim and warm
To rest up in a tree
Away from harm
If on your journey
You go astray
Or forget...
Scene: An upper-middle class suburban neighborhood. Jim is going to knock on the door of his newly moved neighbor.
Jim: [Knocks on door, holding a housewarming gift]
[Someone...
I’ve spent a lifetime,
A patient winter,
Waiting for the moment
You slow your stride.
You hurry through the courtyard.
Frost bitten and bruised
By the unrelenting wind
That strikes your cheeks.
I...
What should I do when I’m out of fresh cheese?
Who should I go to, should I ask the breeze?
This problem haunts me whenever I’m out,
When I lack cheese, my soul is full of doubt.
Cheese...
