Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
standalone confession.
regress
why don’t you?
flyaway.
the trees are tagged with neon
flags and songbirds hang
themselves:
nothing like Christmas.
Gavia Boyden is a poet who focuses on themes of uneasy quiet, suddenness, and longing. She grew up in Oregon’s Blue Mountains, where she fell in love with the poetry of her backyard forest (and Pablo Neruda’s work). Many years later, she is now majoring in English.