Summer 2015: Poetry

The Stars in Your Voice

by Cindy Hines

You were the footsteps in the hall, 
the voice like the first evening star, 
the hands that smoothed my blankets 
when monsters tried to grab me 
as I ran through a dark house. 

You were there to rub my back 
and to sing light into the room. 
You knelt beside me and whispered 
the secret for warding off monsters: 
“Don’t go into the house.” 

How I wish I could teach you 
the secret you once taught me 
and save you from the dark house 
filled with sharp-clawed monsters 
merely by the stars you lit in my voice.

Poetry As hot as the summer sun, 13 poets breathe light into the darkness.		Prose Tending to the worn, imperfect edges of life, five writers grapple with perimeters.		Artwork Like a swarm of bees or a flock of birds: four artists layer meaning through detail.		Young Voices Four teens observe their world and put words to page like only young voices can.		Contributors From emerging to established writers – meet the women behind our seventh issue’s voices and visions.

LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR POETRY         One Gd At A Time by Stephanie Glazier         Gotcha by Darla Mottram         It's Ok To Be A Waterfall by Darla Mottram         Lot's Wife by Cindy St. Onge         Sailor by Sarah Bokich         Six More Weeks by Sarah Borsten         Here. Now. by Emily Ransdell         My Water Children by Emily Ransdell         Upon Finding the House Where Cousin Viola Lived During the Holocaust by Marilyn Johnston         Pornography by Tammy Robacker         Attention by Juleen Johnson         Levine Under Erasure by Juleen Johnson         Chief Joseph's Flute by Stella Jeng Guillory         Communion by Livia Montana         The Stars in Your Voice by Cindy Hines         How I Wasted My Life by Nancy Flynn PROSE         The Honor of Armadillos by B.E. Scully         Basket of Shells by Joanna Rose         How to Cure Cancer by Susan Fleming         Nobody by Judith Pulman         Concentric by Susan DeFreitas ART         Exoskeleton by Rachel Mulder         Give Up the Queen and Nobody Gets Hurt by Rachel Mulder         Give Up the Queen and Nobody Gets Hurt (detail) by Rachel Mulder         Put Me in Your Blue Skies by S. Tudyk         Time Grows Over Memories by S. Tudyk         Untitled Work in Paper by S. Tudyk         Mamas Day by Diana Bustos         Untitled by Diana Bustos         Release by Diana Bustos YOUNG VOICES         Somewhere by Danrong Wang         Runner by Sara Reed         Charcoal by Meghana Mysore         Infinite Ink by Meghana Mysore         Home by Kate Pippenger CONTRIBUTORS