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BrierMae Ossont

  • Study Guide: The Rapture and the Second Coming

    Study Guide: The Rapture and the Second Coming

    What’s funny about it all is that “enraptured” is one of my most dear and darling feelings. I hope every morning for some odd looping video or blooming magnolia tree to rapture me up — to hold my whole lymphatic system in warm, complete, attention. I look for rapture like my momma does, bellering to…

  • Poem: Should Lesbians Recycle?

    Poem: Should Lesbians Recycle?

    I’m perturbed about my mother and recycling. I’m even more frustrated by my inability to make these narratives come together under one roof. My mother is a homophobe. The U.S. exported 881849048.74 pounds of plastic waste alone in 2024. What will I do for her? There is nothing better than a ziplock bag for what…

  • College Cuttings

    College Cuttings

    My goal is often to capture places and experiences with words, but sometimes the stories are too fleeting, and leaves are the best I can do. In one Tyvek volume I stitched plant pieces collected from across my college campus.

  • I wash my hands a lot right now.

    I wash my hands a lot right now.

    I lost my job along with a community I believed in and an institution I leant my trust to. Bundle this with a short list of summer sad-adversaries and tri-weekly nightmares and I’ve been left with a permanent scraped-palm feeling. But, life still isn’t as challenging as undergrad.

  • Abundance Time

    Abundance Time

    I heard a warning in the weeks leading up to graduation that the year after leaving college can be the most existentially challenging in a young adults life. And, I expected a similar dynamic, that college would become the “easy years” in my mind. Instead, I’m faced with a harvest that is constant and a…