March 07, 2025
THE INAUGURAL COLLECTION
Featuring
ZOE TERRAZAS, Photographer
&
SAVANNAH MASSEY, Author
Canon t50 // Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 SC // Kodak Ultramax 400 // canon speedlite 199a flash w/ color filters
Canon t50 // Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 SC // Kodak Ultramax 400 // canon speedlite 199a flash w/ color filters
sincerely, your dead lover
You used to whisper to me
through speckled nights
like a pin being pulled, then dropped—
crashing down onto the cold concrete
five
four
three
two
one second before the explosion
that convinced us
our September sun was bursting.
I know you have a tattered poster of
BARNARD’S STAR
reminding you that, from those
6 light years away,
we are still running [with popsicle syrup sweat
painted down our fingers]
through fields before they turned suburbs,
before our hometown turned someone’s nightly news
and before I turned ash.
When the bombs hit the neighborhood,
the swing set and the park benches,
they took away
your roof / your water / your lover.
And you could not hear me yell:
I can not see barnard’s star —
or any others— from under
the rubble.
When their bombs dropped,
all they spared was
your duty to deal with the mess.
ZOE TERRAZAS is a photographer located on the Central Coast of California. Her goal is to showcase the distinctiveness of her daily life and environment through the lens of an SLR camera, aiming to evoke a feeling of nostalgia in her photographs.
SAVANNAH MASSEY is a a student at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. There, she is Editor-in-Chief of the student literary Magazine. She is a 2025 YoungArts winner with Distinction in Poetry. Her work is published across 20 international institutions.