Author: helicon
Golden Hour
Casey He Casey He is a junior studying journalism, political science and legal studies. An aspiring photographer, his work has been published in Politico and Time Magazine and recognized by student journalism awards like College Media Association’s Pinnacle Award.
Table of Contents
Golden Hour Casey He Dried Blood Emerson Steady Bible Booster Seat Elijah Elvin Irupé: Stories of Yearning from the Heart of South America Kathrin Salame Waiting for Sunrise Casey He In der Fremde Emerson Steady Cuban Pancakes Alyson Font Echoes in the Glow 1 Joss Broward Jeremi Elijah Elvin By the bank of the Green… Read More Table of Contents
Masthead
Helicon Staff 2024-2025 Mika Ellison, Editor-in-Chief Yong-Yu Huang, Managing Editor Dayeon Son, Programming Editor Aarya Mehta, Publicity Editor Brian Bouldrey, Faculty Sponsor Prose Staff Hye-won Yoo, Editor Justin Dynes Sydney Gaw* Dylan Lanier Patrick Leu* Elizabeth Lowry Anna Maffetone Clara Martinez Sofia Migaly Sydney Rodriguez Maggie Schneider* Beatrice Selch Katherine Yun Poetry Staff Lakshmi Sunder,… Read More Masthead
Editor’s Note
Welcome to Helicon’s Spring Quarter Issue 2025! If you’re reading this, it means that somehow, against all the odds, the magazine is published! And also, it probably means that I am graduated and no longer a student here. So for this letter, I wanted to look back at Helicon, what it means to me, and… Read More Editor’s Note
Swallow
Angelina Randazzo Angelina Randazzo is a School of Communications sophomore majoring in RTVF and minoring in Art Theory and Practice.
Like the Back of My Hand
Greta R. Cunningham My mom would like us to be more similar. She grasps my hands, lining up our fingers like a palimpsest, tracing what she claims to be the twin arcs of our nail beds. My mom would like us to be more similar, but her genes didn’t really stand a chance. Blue eyes.… Read More Like the Back of My Hand
LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
Note: The italicized lines are directly borrowed from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Roy Zhu Bringer of light; root of a sacred tree your names multiply as you turn out the roundness of this world. I see you dreaming spirals; nebula; the palimpsest beneath my lover’s palm; machine code… Read More LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
Gifts from My Father
Natalie Antonia May The gift of life, to start, though he didn’t play as big a role as my mother. He kind of just signed the card. A puppet from wherever he traveled for work. A Hedgehog from England. A Wombat from Australia, which married my American Porcupine. They had several, cross-breed, dual-citizenship babies. One… Read More Gifts from My Father
Bois Caïman
Elijah Elvin wood of gators, herbed in ginger, limestone peaks, vetiver rain-kissed, a mist’s night in pearled antilles deepens your devotion, keeps your heart open. To the ocean Boukman looks, west the enslaved strike to be unbroken. Lespwa fe viv Lespwa fe viv The bell rings at the sun’s set, the Creole pig ceases its… Read More Bois Caïman
Trini Girl
Cheyenne Anjali my people identify themselves by the sea. they are always interested in the non-black parts of me. the baby soft hairs of my growing unibrow, beauty marks scattering across my skin like stardust dark curls twining around themselves like lovers, pink lips longing for tamarind sauce and callaloo, brown skin like mangoes, sweet… Read More Trini Girl
