I heard a true war story sixth–hand, though I came close to hearing it third–hand. This is how it came to me: A friend who had recently returned from boot camp – let’s call him Jones – had met someone who had been deployed in Iraq – let’s call him Smith. Smith was temporarily the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Vol 1 Issue 2’
February 3, 2007
The Death of the Historical Jesus
By Nick Benavides
Being a Christian in the United States today entails more than just having a set of beliefs about God and the afterlife. In many cases church membership implies holding conservative positions on a number of political and social issues including abortion, homosexuality and gay marriage, attitudes towards the government, the “war on [...]
February 3, 2007
Aubade
If you ever leave him, this room will still know him
like you did not leave him. In the gold bowl
plums hard with wanting, apples ready,
stems poised, to spring outward. As if nothing
could bear itself, objects sickened by their forms.
The wall aching where a thrown glass once
burst like a star, the mirror heavy [...]
February 2, 2007
Family Photograph, Thanksgiving 2005
You, in your football sweatshirt and your hair
cropped so short that after months of having watched it flow into your eyes
our grandfather says that you look like a Buddha-monk,
gazing down at the table with your hands in your pockets,
your wide-mouthed grin holding no more traces of the
brackets gone at last from a jawbone still too [...]
February 2, 2007
Illustration From the Emperor’s New Clothes
— Kellie Brownell and Killeen Hanson
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February 2, 2007
A Modern Guide to Pi
By Steven Tagle
“I never planned to become a pi junkie. I never thought I’d become intimately familiar with the Holy Grail of geeks and math majors, or know that its sixty-forth digit was three. But handsome Derek made me learn it, digit by stubborn digit, as we raced up the stairwell of the [...]
February 2, 2007
Odalisque
Some bauble, some fragment-thing—
Some ornamental—missed
The way a fog is missed:
Solemnly fucking solemnly.
Syllables (fever, listen) make up
(make-up?) a photograph
(a photograph of someone,
JFK, alive, looking sad and alive)
It can be your name, can it?
Many words sound like your name
(embedded). We know as fact
They would play chess at Troy—
Unlike Helen, bored Helen—
Minds sharp and out of focus
Like [...]
