Xanadu
 

As it swings in the air—attached to my hook at the end of my line, begging for water—I grasp it. I begin to examine it and stumble upon a...

The students oiled their trumpet valves and applied rosin to their horsehair violin bows before their rehearsal started. Excitement...

His pencil is trembling, drumming a ceaseless best against the table. The floor seems to be pushing upward on his foot, bouncing it as...

Your eyes gleamed sang such charms made my limbs dance the mamba. I followed your curving path deeper into undergrowth full of teeth and...

"Art is an expression," says the teacher, her encouraging voice begging us to produce something new. I stare at the canvas—blank, empty,...

When we were together you had me boxed. No escape. I tried to break free but you just slapped... some packaging tape on me. Now I am...

It’s another tough day in Mr. L’s class. The best class of the day, I was told. Lies. "Please plug in the function y= x-4 into your...

Your love, knotted within me, tight and suffocating. You pull, on our love until, our knotted love is unable to be undone, and yet the...

I grew weary and gray I strained more and more to hold on to my memories as they drift away Though my body ached I stood tall Giraffing...

We sat in silence as the argument ensued. Our blank, innocent stares offered protection and ignorance. We were neither present nor absent...