Diverse Voices Quarterly Issue 1 & 2

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COTTON SWEATSHIRT I am clothed in your sun burned neck & basket cracked hands and you, your hours cramped up into your elbows needling small stitches & seams felt logos of brands I don’t support buy everything used run enough through wash bleach out blood water can’t release history & a name and I don’t know your names I care —Elizabeth Kate Switaj Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 1 & 2 64
THE BOY —for Dave Dively Me and the Boy went fishing in the creek last Sunday. His six-year-old fingers and my calloused ones fetched a big ole mess of worms. Dirt clung to their sticky skin and the metal trapping them. I wiped a bit from the Boy’s hands with my hankie, but it just smudged it. Worms wriggled up the sides of the can, trying to escape, but they couldn’t. Like a fish out of water, they writhed and squirmed, helpless. The Boy didn’t want to hook them, so I did. I pierced their soft bodies, and I cringed for the Boy. But a sacrifice had to be made to feed the family, as my dad told me. —Martha Krystaponis Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 1 & 2 65
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CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Andrew Abbott was
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Bob Marcacci teaches high school En
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TABLE OF CONTENTS “Constant State
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CONSTANT STATE OF LOVE Diverse Voic
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“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 and 38: TRAVELS THROUGH LIFE First name: My
Page 39 and 40: Exit —Cora Goss-Grubbs Diverse Vo
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: POSTMODERN GUERNICA Today, I realiz
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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