Pathos Literary Magazine is pleased to produce for you the second edition of our online art gallery! We have so much gratitude and appreciation for our artistic community here at PSU. Stay tuned for more art, poetry, and inspiration, on the blog, on our social media pages, and on the Pathos stands in the hallways of PSU! Click on the visual poems to enlarge them.
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Discourse on Cultural Impositions
by Emma Wallace
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First Snow
by Jocelyn Kiffe
The red rain
sprinkled on the river.
It changed cold spring
to cloudy meadow.
My excitement mended
the chance to be mad at myself.
As the dust cleared
I shed my moldy skin.
My shell was short-lived.
And I, loud and rowdy,
became a wrinkle with a cane.
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cycle
by Karen Torres-Olguin
I’m stuck in a cycle of living
and loving
in instances
That are nothing but exactly that –
short lived
Know
by Karen Torres-Olguin
Sinking
by Karen Torres-Olguin
Music playing in the background
The only way that I seem to fall asleep lately
There’s a break in the beat
Replaced with a steady buzz
A phone call
I pry my eyes open long enough
To read your name on the screen
And glance at the time
Knowing that by now you’re drunk
Filled with enough courage to last you through the night
And into the morning
During those five rings
That seem to span minutes, rather than seconds
I’m taken back
To spending those nights, that turned into mornings
On different sides of town
Wondering, if you’d ever make it back home to me
I worked on keeping you afloat
Never minding that I was drowning
Because you see, this is what love it supposed to be like
This is what love is supposed to be like
An affirmation that grew murkier, and quieter
As our voices grew louder
Five long rings
And I can feel myself
Sinking, sinking
Back to sleep
