Inklilngs 2024

Convergence Eve Zhou ’24 what if I told you that the sky is just the sea for birds and the wind and the waves are one and the same and in the depths of the ocean there swim cephalopods that represent our hopes and dreams amorphous afraid flitting away from the deep-sea cameras that try to capture them, make them known what if I told you that love is not love but we all say we find love in the blank spaces between lines on a musical staff, notes to love songs unwritten but we say we can hear them to try and figure it all out so we can have an answer to the questions asked of us at the (metaphorical) pearly gates — no at the scales with a feather what if I told you that once I spent time imagining those scales, the way the sun must not have reflected off the gold, and I placed the heart of many a hero — no a protagonist, not a hero — I placed their hearts on the scale but never my own never my own. what if I told you that explorers once dreamed that they would reach the edge of the world but the world kept going around and around and only then did they realize 41