Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
After W.B Yeats
Who would listen to a woman of war
in the country of war in the era
of war. There is no muse like war,
everyone knows that beauty
is not natural in an age like this.
I wish instead to be dangerous like
Medusa. So many of my problems
would disappear if I could turn men to
stone. Disappear like I did from my
husband’s bed in the middle of the night
my hand disappears under my lover’s shirt–
the golden apple of love breaks like an
eggshell held between us.
What can war bring that’s better than this?