Summer 2013: Young Voices
Beach Wanderer
Poetry by Isabella Waldron
I have been walking on a beach, Pleasantly lost somewhere on the coast. As warm sand weaves itself between my toes, And the sun stretches lazily across my back. I have found myself hypnotized by the lure of the bright blue waves, Calling to me before turning to liquid crystal as they pool around my feet. I have wandered for miles on sand Before the soft grain sinks beneath my feet, Trying to be light as the stray seagull feather that falls. I have been where the din of people shouting and seagulls crying and the ocean’s call calms me. I have found a seashell, Flecked with sand, like the black freckles on my cat’s nose. And considered bringing it home In a paint-flaked, salt scented, red bucket, Before returning that shell carefully to its bed of sand. I have seen the ocean grow angry and toss in its sleep, Growing dark and cold and unknown to any. I have seen the ocean tease, As it comes feet away from the edge of the shore And then pulls away, Giddy with its deceit. I have gone dancing with the ocean’s foam. The foam that clings tenderly to the shore. I have seen the ocean relax at last, Opening its languid arms, Inviting all beach wanderers To run into the tepid water. They run with a fervor. For they too have been walking on a beach, And found the ocean alive.
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Rich, strong, poignant, humorous and inspiring. We’ve caught twenty never-before-published poems by sixteen unique voices. |
Seven talented women search for themselves in their bodies, their family, themselves. |
Established dynamos and aspiring voices add colorful visions to our third issue. |
Language leaps off the page in the poetry and prose of five young authors who delight in sensory detail. |
Meet the authors and artists who make this Summer 2013 edition a rich, varied and engaging experience. |
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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
POETRY Abandoned Church by Tanya Jarvik Commencement by Kelly Running Depoe Bay by Wendy Thompson Directive by Cristina White Hawk Moth by Wendy Thompson How to Recycle Love Letters by Jennifer Dorner I Swapped a '74 Mustang for This by Jennifer Fulford Polaroid of My Mother by Cindy Stewart-Rinier Lover, Molester, and Maindens (Haibun) by Margaret Chula Savory by Pat Phillips West Seascape by Marjorie Power Suspended by Grace Kuhns The Hand-Off by Pattie Palmer-Baker The Ride by Linda Ferguson The Ticking Shirt by Tricia Knoll Three Facts about Sperm by Ursula Whitcher Three True Stories by Penelope Scambly Schott Today at the Library by Pat Phillips West Trapped Birds by Grace Kuhns You, who will be alive and reading after I'm gone by Penelope Scambly Schott PROSE After the World Ends by Kait Heacock Something Permanent by Ashley-Renée Cribbins Your Hand at Your Throat by Karen Guth Black Sharpie by Anne Gudger Diagnosis by Helen Sinoradzki For He's a Jolly Good Fellow by Laura Stanfill Breathing Underwater by Valerie Wagner ART Unity by Anne John Rearguard by Anne John Speculation by Anne John Wire by Jocelyn White Taitian Trio by Nani Chesire Catch Your Breath by Nani Chesire YOUNG VOICES We Will Read to You by Rebecca Cleveland-Stout Strawberry Party by Natalie Lerner A Young Night by Clara Beaumont Beach Wanderer by Isabella Waldron Light and Dark by Colette Au CONTRIBUTORS |