Culture, Diary, Prose

Lighthouse Hill

by Jiaxi Jesse He In high school, I’d make a pilgrimage to the Dallas Museum of Art every month. On those Saturdays, I rose early, timing the hour-long train ride to arrive just as the museum opens. I’d cut past the Basquiat, Church’s Icebergs, and the infinitely Instagram-able Monets—a line already forming—until I arrived at […]

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Photography, Poetry

Winter Sonnet

by Elisabeth Rees Warm radiance of mutual brilliance,My woollen jumper speaks no tales of fancy.Cup of tea, your eyes on me are chancy.Is the code of Winter youth dalliance?Snow of the earth, limitless before me,Laughing, surfeited on wine drunk spicy,As we, winded, kneel on a shrine icy,And I ask only that you adore me. Glacial […]

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Poetry

Perchance

by Flora Molnar Humour me: can we go back to a time  Where I, as Me, rhyme(s) always with Thee, And Mine has, likewise, only short length to go  To become Thine – t’is possible? Perchance  Only with Art. 

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Humour, Prose

A Whimsical Revenge Plot against Microsoft Authenticator

by Evangeline LaFond If you had given me the choice at the end of Trinity term last year, I would gladly have eaten a whole handful of live wasps in exchange for never again having to go through the pain of Microsoft Authenticator’s two-factor authentication. As of Sunday of 0th week this Michaelmas, however, my […]

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Poetry

Heartstrings

by Mark Have you ever held a guitar?Felt the rounding deft of its bodyNoticed its lacquerNoticed it’s incompleteHave you followed it down the fretsand found undone its tonesunearthed the tone switchconfounded by the tone switchHave you ever visited Ensenada where she was madetried to make one yourself. WellIt’s gritty and difficult and challengingand grittylike welding […]

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Photography, Poetry

A February Afternoon’s Sunbeam

by Taylor Gray Moore You’re breath finally breathed;the soft call of farawaybirds; a hum of whaleslost in brethren contours ofthe sea. You’re free like deer are free;like snow blowing over pavementis free. Unlike how we are free:as wanderers along the freewaybetween one sea and anotherare free. I live along your suggestionof a current:my feet slip […]

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News, Prose

A Freezing Fresher Film

by Hannah Bridgland On Saturday the 22nd of November, we wrapped the short film ‘Freshers’ made with OxfordUniversity Filmmaking Foundation! A script written by a former student was developed bymyself, alongside the director, producer, and my co-cinematographer, starting around 6months ago. The film tells the story of an Oxford student’s freshers’ week, before we join […]

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Diary, Prose

Pictures in My Mind

by Anastasia Brown When I was little, my family had a chunky black digital camera that we took on every trip. My mom was a liberal picture-taker, and we all knew we wouldn’t leave any vacation without at least a few dozen options for the Christmas card. Sometimes, if I spotted something particularly interesting from […]

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