Diverse Voices Quarterly Issue 1 & 2

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INTERFACE: TWO VIEWS She gave me a painting: window open out to sea, small vase with darkened daisies on the sill, and beyond, grasses tipped with cattails, waves wearied of their journey. Beside it, my own window view: skyline of a city, pines and birches, frozen beaches, clouds (the same as hers). Both framed in wood, each as real as the other, did she imagine one day I would sit and look at both together? —Laury Egan INTERFACE: THE MIRROR The mirror holds a view, animate or dead, depending on the angle of its scope. Now, as I walk past, it reflects your face from the hall of portraits, fusing it with mine, one of acrylic paint and one of replicated reality. I wonder how, four decades hence, you felt, paintbrush in hand, blue-smocked, smoke swirling, staring into silver glass as I played alone outside your studio. You would approve of the silence now, no child to interrupt your artistic reverie. Perhaps you would have set to paint my pink tulips blued by the rain-thirsty sky, or are you coming through this sinuous interface, mischievously suggesting a whispered word as I write, your presence subtle as lightest dust, the faintest tactile touch, damp like drafts from the sea-faced windows? As I peer down the shadowed hall, I see us both and for one instant glimpse you as I’ve never seen and me like you in all but looks, reflections of our double loss. —Laury A. Egan Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 1 & 2 38
Exit —Cora Goss-Grubbs Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 1 & 2 39
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Page 3 and 4: CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Andrew Abbott was
Page 5 and 6: Bob Marcacci teaches high school En
Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF CONTENTS “Constant State
Page 9 and 10: CONSTANT STATE OF LOVE Diverse Voic
Page 11 and 12: “I have to tell you something.”
Page 13 and 14: QUEEN BEE I’m sucked into a vorte
Page 15 and 16: scissor in my spit tooth grit like
Page 17 and 18: Then she grew beyond steady contact
Page 19 and 20: “We found it by the curb,” Offi
Page 21 and 22: RUNAWAYS Diverse Voices Quarterly,
Page 23 and 24: swimming instead of walking on eggs
Page 25 and 26: Oblivious to the Obvious —Diana P
Page 27 and 28: I HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAMES… I hav
Page 29 and 30: VERTIGO A face among many I am a dr
Page 31 and 32: Ten minutes later I stood in a feti
Page 33 and 34: figure if I collect on one person i
Page 35 and 36: He approached a few people before r
Page 37: TRAVELS THROUGH LIFE First name: My
Page 41 and 42: I passed my fingers through the war
Page 43 and 44: “That’s not what I meant.” Sa
Page 45 and 46: “Think about what they wanted to
Page 47 and 48: “Too bad.” Sarah brought her lo
Page 49 and 50: BEAUTIFUL MUSIC You are a melody ru
Page 51 and 52: SHOT you hold the blanket up and lo
Page 53 and 54: CHILDHOOD LESSONS Diverse Voices Qu
Page 55 and 56: PUZZLE There are no extra pieces in
Page 57 and 58: upon the only real strength that sh
Page 59 and 60: this woman-child was deranged. She
Page 61 and 62: existence actually is. The weather
Page 63 and 64: POSTMODERN GUERNICA Today, I realiz
Page 65 and 66: THE BOY —for Dave Dively Me and t
Page 67 and 68: When I handed my ticket to the agen
Page 69 and 70: RAPUNZEL He thought she’d always
Page 71 and 72: pretended not to know he dreaded. S
Page 73 and 74: DAY ONE The world is shrinking betw
Page 75 and 76: know better than to escape the warm

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