Spring 2021
three dreams i had last week
Chloe Chow i. come with me to the place where blood orange drips from your lips and i wipe it away with two fingers and three white teeth. where i may feel your scalp burn beneath my palm. where i can see you in the roaring light of day and it is nice. are you… Read More three dreams i had last week
bastion
Taylor Feld Taylor Feld is a senior theatre major and creative writing minor at Northwestern University. They have many fake plants.
Dōtonbori: Marathon Man
Christina Kim Christina Kim is a junior studying Cognitive Science at Northwestern University. She began her art career by copying atlases as a child, and she once dreamt of becoming a video game artist. Stepping into an art supply store still brings her the greatest joy.
Photo-montage
Henry Koskoff after Heartfield’s Self-portrait The Rebel undoes Zörgiebel’s head with some garden shears. He is handsome, is stern with the forehead-central vein my father has. What’s more violent, shears or fingers? The Rebel answers: ‘ fingers, because they toggle the… Read More Photo-montage
City Called El Paso
Blair Donohue This is how you come into the world: It is September and I am newly a midwife and you are newly born. You slip into my hands as still and silent as a deer and your mother asks me if you are alright. I don’t know what to tell her. You’re not moving.… Read More City Called El Paso
Table of Contents
City Called El PasoBlair Donohue Photo-montageHenry Koskoff Dōtonbori: Marathon ManChristina Kim bastionTaylor Feld three dreams i had last weekChloe Chow DaphneZoë Huettl Reel BadChristopher Lee The Things We Leave BehindCindy Chen SubmergedErin Park A Mammoth LullabyDevony Hof 03.30.2021 (When Amelia Was In The Hospital, She Hit Her Head)H.S. Deng year of the oxApril Li SupermarketsApril… Read More Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
++++If 2020 was a year of turmoil and transition, 2021 is shaping up to be a year of healing and recuperation. Spring brings a period of rejuvenation, and with it anticipation for the future. Here at Helicon, spring is upon us as well. Despite the tumultuous past year, we have emerged with this print issue,… Read More Editor’s Note
