Perception Spring 2023

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Ryan Topper
Come in from the cast
the receding shadow
your eyes can’t absorb
Tug your way up the radio wires
speak gently
Like grace dripping sweetly from your lips
reel in
Tell them you went so far & saw
more than sanity
But don’t lose your footing
you will bloom
Alone
Kait Nero
Aimless steps through the campus museum.
Guitar strings buzzing atop the highest hill.
Hurried walks with no destination.
A dim warmth, a looming sadness.
There was not much knowledge behind my eyes then.
Notes of bergamot and honey fill my apartment,
Reminding me of my mother,
And her mother,
And her mother before that.
I wonder if they felt uncertainty as I have felt it.
Today I’ll return to that hill
And see how small my world is.
Tonight I will look at the moon
And realize we are all the same.
We are all the same.
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