Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
My friends stretch arms, legs, yawns
on the couch. American Spirits
chased with chianti, cheap jokes, rinsed out
by navel-deep laughs. We leave
jeans, vintage sweatshirts, clumped
with seaweed on mist-soaked stairs. Run to the ocean,
arms wide, shoulders bracing for the pinkening sky.
In a flash and polaroid pixels, we stretch
a moment
long enough to tape it to the fridge.
Lila Velasquez Singh is a writer and student of writing at the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Spectrum, the oldest literary magazine in the UC system, and is currently working on her first short story collection.