Inklilngs 2024

Notre Villanelle Sophia Romanov Imber ’24 Trust not the quest of matter and mind To know everything is to be robbed of wonder Listen to the music the children sing when it is grief they find Their laughter, their armor, always remains kind Did the white coat ever find the light under? Trust not the quest of matter and mind Our little song of hope enshrined To be data, to be studied? See our thunder Listen to the music the children sing when it is love they find These lyrics of our lives are jeopardized At times we become the hunted and hunter Trust not the quest of matter and mind I trust our human desire to share as mankind It is a sonnet’s summer, a writer’s hunger Listen to the music the children sing when it is freedom they find Do you ask how we progress and redesign? How can we without a note uttered? Trust not the quest of matter and mind Listen to the music the children sing when it is you they find 30