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Picture of Music
Alden Wiygul
Sculpture—cassette tape, polaroid pictures
Hushed Tones
Taylor Willis
With each subtle crash Waves whisper
And move
Swish Swish Swish Divulging their stories In a rhythmic pattern As if the sea
is murmuring a soothing lullaby.
With each puff of wind
Whispy clouds graze past one another
Like strangers breathing hello
“How are you today?” one says
“I’m fine, and you?”
“I’m wonderful.”
And then they pass
Exhaling goodbyes and never meeting again.
With each hushed voice behind porcelain hands Secrets flow through child-like ears
Blurring hundreds of muffled words
Into a single mass of ill-defined babble.
With each night beneath the sheets Pillows eavesdrop
On the two lovers
Who lie in each other’s gentle embrace Mouthing almost inaudibly,
“I love you.”
Warped
Auriel Quiroz
Drawing—pencil, watercolor
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