Category Archives: 2011-edition
Campus Trees
By Hannah L. Johanson I. We walked in the courtyard, between buildings R and L – Constantly bantering about families, freedom, and finals, Sitting, with arms resting on the oversized study chairs, We inhabited the student lounge that first trepid … Continue reading
The Strange Case of Professor Lundmire
By Calvin C. Clawson Sitting at his desk, within his small office on the third floor of Foggity Hall, Professor Paul Lundmire worked arduously on the problem before him: how to get these rascally elliptic equations to behave. He poured … Continue reading
“Man Must Explore”
By Samuel Pizelo “As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown… I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature; Man must explore.” Dave Scott, Commander Apollo 15, 31 July 1971. As I spill from … Continue reading
Daughter Villanelle
By Hannah Johanson She wants to write around the world someday, Sketching forgotten brothers in dark ink: Rendering those voices who cannot say. He prefers her in physician’s array, Wearing privileged white; drawing the mundane. She wants to write around … Continue reading
As Night and I are fiercesome
By David Putney As Night and I are fiercesome, facing eye to eye and locked in mortal pirouette, As lunatic the Darkness races, I crave the Slumber to forget. As lullabyes knell their pale torment And I insomnious flee the … Continue reading
The Glove
By Gary W. Farris The baseball glove was a Rawlings. It was brand new, stiff and clean, and it lay on the grass on its face, so that the checkerboard pattern on the back of its pocket was facing upward. … Continue reading
While The Sun Was Out
By Scott Cooper The psych ward was bleak on the best of days. It didn’t matter what shade of beige or taupe they used to paint and repaint the walls, what kind of soft, pastel art they hung on them … Continue reading