elementia

The Coffin

By Jack Kavanaugh
issue 10

The coffin wood grabs at my clothes

The wood chokes me

The darkness attacks me

The weariness crawls around me

When it opens the sun grabs me

I am back

death
resilience

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This Man

By Enrique Gutierrez
issue 10

This man is rueful,

This man was done,

This man let go, temptation had won.

This man was punished, for things of great crime,

This man left a sod to eat on a dime.

This man, crushed and torn,

This man was tired and worn.

identity
masculinity
resilience

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O’Brien’s Gun

By Anna Castillo
issue 10

A gun’s cause’s harm

To the innocent

And gives fairness to the verdict

It’s not really the gun but,

The soul behind the gun

weapons
145th street
violence

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Why Reading Is So Important To The World

By Leanne Chun
issue 10

Reading. Books. Even if the two are generally frowned

upon in our day and age, they shouldn’t be. Books are

the things that raised our nation. John Adams, Thomas

Jefferson, John Hancock, and countless others used books, or

reading
books

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