If there were a happy ending,
would we embrace it?
Too mixed up in what we know
of our innateness
Forgetting to live as more than
just blank slates.
- Sarah Mullin, "Untitled"
Contents
Poetry
Jessica Babcock
Kenyon Inspire
Shakedown
Aleisa's Portrait
Seven Forty One
Daniel Berntson
Indulgence, after Alfonso
Cortes
Seeing
A Wake of Broken Lines
I Will Not Love You
God of the Harvest
Benjamin Brownson
Fog
Solomon Davis
Talent
Kayli King
Meditation on Language
Sweet and Tangy Decimation
"Longing to have their feet
in boots," after Lyn Hejinian
Sarah Mullin
Untitled
Ryan Pendell
Borysewicz's Glass
Lectio
Field Notes
From the Art Gallery
Natalie Rieck
Monologue
Hamilton Street
Erica Romkema
Hands
Fight or Flight
Aleisa Schat
Winter Walk (First
Place)
Before Morning
Pantoum of Grocery Store, after Donald Justice
The Garden in Summer
Running on the Puddlejumper At Dusk
Akane Yokoo
Mt. Takao
Creative Non-Fiction
Jessica Babcock
The Game of Life
Solomon Davis
Credo
Clarissa Janssen
Good-Bye Nizhni
Natalie Rieck
The Year That Gave Me Today
Erica Romkema
Down Winding Roads
(First Place)
Journeying
Tracy Scott
Four-Appointments With the
Homeless Lady
Allison Simmons
My Mother's Gift