Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
i. an ipod touch of taylor swift songs and kickin’ it fan fiction and old chocolate wrappers that still crinkle-crinkle on the gravestone -- i wanted to get lunch with you when you asked
ii. a drawing of me and a handwritten letter and a single document that tells me to sleep and eat more that still chides me from the gravestone inscription -- i wanted to apologize one last time
iii. a red guitar pick and a purple and white friendship bracelet and a poem that still whispers from the ground -- i wanted you to stop asking for forgiveness
iv. an exchange of tentative texts and an annotated john green book and playlists listened to late at night -- i prepare the grave, i dig into the ice-hardened ground, i demand it to be finished–
+ i. you reach for my wrist
and force me to stop digging.
+ ii. “do not bury me here,” you say.
+ iii. i do not bury you.
+ iv. you lead me out of the cemetery.