It’s been a long time coming. You’ve returned from a passing stint at Zoom University and can revel in coming home to the place that you remember.

Let’s not beat around the bush. It has been fuck*ng hard. You’ve managed to maneuver through this life amidst a global pandemic and here you are paving your way to the other side.

A rugged rally. A ruthless rebound. It took a lot to get here. And maybe you aren’t even there yet.

But the pursuit is what matters, in all its unpolished glory. We’re searching for the mess.

Everyone loves a good comeback story.

The Current Collective

Payton Alonzo

Handmade Ego

Brady Ford

First Term at UO

Bobby Helgager

Punishment

Lucy Murrell

Fertilized with the pains of Solitude,

I live alone in my womb.

But when rays of new Spring impale my ballooned form,

I will birth a Body pricked

with crimes of bleak Winter,

and arrive Again.

My legs, dipped in the blood of a Body birthed of pain,

will carry me to the Tomb of Two Years.