Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
waves purr upandalong
a gradient that stretches from
milk to grape. wind forges sinews;
rocks kick it up.
who poured milk in the water?
who made the horizon burst blue like a kyoho grape?
(crunchy bitter seeds make the tongue clack.
take another,
wash the sourness down swallow the pucker the
seed pod whole and
consider your body a vineyard
sown by the soul-deep sea)