Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
the air hums, lying in wait. bare
soles meet dirt and twigs, beating the earth
in a deep ancestral lullaby
a rhythm untouched by any haste.
Falling from the sky and flowing in
its course shaping and scoring the earth.
she steps in without need of a priest
and sinks herself into Holy River.
She surfaces- once-and submerges
again. She rises, fists full of mud.
Precious earth, in a smooth motion
of absolution, makes herself
a truer face; raw, feral, and-