Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
burning.
my face is burning
as if he were a blazing
sun––gravity-strong
arms, he’s got. i thought
i’d learned i burn and bleed easy, yet
now i’ve got red smeared cross-jugular,
hot stains across my heaving chest
again. stubbled edges
leave harsh red
marks on my sensitive
lips. i soothe my burnt
palm with his ice-bright
irises. i love his
red-hot humor bubbling
down my open throat, caressing
my veins as it fizzes and burns like
fingertips on stubbled cheeks
and dry ice marring teenage lungs
and gaping crimson, bleeding, burning
promises like
i won’t fall again.
Leah Breskal is a sophomore at Brandeis University from Los Angeles, CA studying Creative Writing, English, Secondary Teacher Education, and Music. She’s been writing poetry and short fiction for as long as she can remember and is overjoyed to be involved in Laurel Moon as a layout editor, writer, and editor.