The Eckleburg Project

Texas A&M's Official Literary Journal

The Eckleburg Project is the official undergraduate literary journal of Texas A&M University. We are an undergraduate organization featuring student poetry, prose, and art. Now with thirteen issues under our belt, we started with the idea that art should be free and easily accessible to the community.

Our staff is composed of undergraduate students and editors who select pieces to be published semesterly under a process of blind review. For information on how to join, go to our apply page. For information on how to submit, go to our submissions page. For general inquiries, or just to say hello, contact our organizational email at theeckleburgproject@gmail.com.

As always, we thank you for your support as we continue to foster art here at Texas A&M.

Rabbit's Race by Ethan Testerman

March 28, 2025  /  The Eckleburg Project

I want to watch you run and race,

Jump and chase

this feeling you cling to.

“how i wish i could leave you!”


Weave through the fields

and dart into the leaves.

Only God knows we’re here,

Feared enough to feed.


Thrilling, this one is,

to be so desperately cunning.

Pleading, just as they have,

always, always running.


Crack.

Tumble.

Fold.


Oh, I see that you’re hurt.

I can drop the rhyme, the reason, and the thought.

You’ve never been worth this much effort,

“I’ve won; thus you’ve lost.”


My spoils trophied by the forest floor,

I’m sorry, little one,

even a Rabbit can twist an ankle.

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