Personal Response: Steel Feathers bullets flew as birds do They grazed the clouds, the sun, my family, my friends- purposefully wasteful They always hit a mark the violence in the streets terror terrified[…]
Author: laurynb
Where Father Searched for Home
Based on About My Father’s Plot to Get Home & The Road Past Altamont Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the ways in which individuals deal with the prospect of an uncertain[…]
A Tangled Woman
Based on The Tent Delivery Woman’s Ride Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the impact significant events have on an individual’s ability to determine their own destiny? Mother was like a[…]
Giving Sunlight
Based on A Few Notes For Orpheus Prompt: What does this text suggest about the ways in which individuals deal with the uncertainties of the past? scars on my shoulder My father held[…]
Pointing Fingers
Death of a Salesman is quite an astonishing play, mainly because it hit home in all the places I didn’t want it to. It is honest about its own truths. One question particularly[…]
Overthinking It – Hamlet Critical Essay
“The more you know, the less you understand” – Laozi Certainty is a relatively simple concept. Defined as a firm, internal conviction of verity, a deeply held belief[…]
On Intentions
Five o’clock Perhaps it was that champagne five-o’clock light slanting through our glass walls, golden-warm like honey we licked straight from hive Yes, perhaps it was those low, sun-softened shadows, that[…]
A Sort of Paralysis
Prompt: What are the ways in which an individual struggles to restore honour and certainty? “And can say nothing—no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made.[…]
When it Snows in June
There is a wilderness, home of behemoths issuing from a floor carpeted with life. There is a wilderness, labyrinthian, trees milking the sun, ushering its golden light from the heavens to the earth[…]
The Choosing
I am floating On my back Eyes to the heavens Drinking in starlight Brilliant and blinding Light drenches my pupils I am dazzled by loveliness And I want to[…]