A tear trickles down a glacier,
Growing the grass and my hope.
I fell in love with spring
When it melted bitterness and frost,
Its raindrops sliding down windowpanes
And mourning the earth below.
Ally is a third-year English and history student at Carleton University. They are a queer, autistic writer and painter with a love of whimsy and melancholy alike. In the poems “Spring” and “The Time-Honoured Tradition of Moving Away and Losing Touch,” they express a mixture of these two opposing aesthetics. In “Roommate,” they explore a much more playful perspective while writing of something that could be seen as sinister. They have never had their work published but are grateful for the opportunity.