Ana Hein is an undergraduate student at Emerson College pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing with minors in Comedy Writing and Performance and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work has been featured in Concrete, Gauge, Emerson College’s Undergraduate Students for Publishing blog, Black Swan, and the Appley 2018 Rising Stars Collection and has won multiple Editor’s Choice Awards from Teen Ink Magazine. She can usually be found buying too many books, singing loudly, wearing red lipstick, complaining about the weather, staring into the void, and generally being very dramatic.
Bradley Firchow
The Pond
When I find you
I will
Unravel you like a yarn ball,
You sweet mystery
Of lemongrass sadness
All hollow aching
In my chest
For something more
More than the sweat on my brow
Or the veins on the backs of my hands
That fill with warm, red blood
At the thought of you
Today I dangled my toes in the water
I thought about it
About when
I find you,
That forgotten corner of the world,
Brimming with the chatter of crickets,
Swishing of fishing line in the trees,
Fingerprints of Fishermen Past,
I’ll swim.
Bradley Firchow is a graduate of Oglethorpe University and an aspiring rural doctor. He currently lives in Atlanta and works for a global pediatric surgery non-profit. His writing draws from his experiences living in the American South.