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...
Waking up in a cold sweat feels like nothing to worry about. But sometimes, you remember why you worry. That dream you had felt so surreal, and for what? Why? Why are you tortured by your own mind in the...
