Volume 1, Issue 3 & 4 - Diverse Voices Quarterly

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on the slow track in a technologically high-speed world it is better at times (maybe most times) to cry i think i’ll be a steam train today and putter and puff through a landscape exactly designed for calm movement this is the time when proportions touch on the quick of good living thought has the grace of a wayside flower and a bend in the so slow river reflects the train keeping up its chuffed song frailty has its place here too and the notso-smooth run of the bones and ages knock (this landscape absorbs such distempers— even the train’s going round the bend can cause its wry smile)—ahead though the traveling fruits to be picked still tempt the tongue to water (excite the eye) incite rich speculations at the turning pages—that (in the passenger the journey’s knit for) life’s broken tapestries grow whole again —RG Gregory Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 3 & 4 80
CLASS REUNION So what if my stomach is rounder than you remember or that my hair is shorter? I’m still me. Don’t act like I’m different, that I’m not the same girl that let you… Don’t look at me with that face. You are no more Helen than I. —Jessie Carty Skin Vessel 2 —Carmen Teixdor Diverse Voices Quarterly, Vol. 1, Issue 3 & 4 81
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CONTRIBUTOR NOTES Maia Akiva is a s
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then she has been courting the muse
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a book art show titled Somewhere Fa
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TABLE OF CONTENTS “The Kitchen on
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“Skin Vessel 2” Carmen Teixdor
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CHEROKEE That little smart-eyed boy
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COKED-UP HOOKER Like a coked-up hoo
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STAINED GLASS SISTER It’s as if S
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Rising —Eliza Kelley Diverse Voic
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Page 31 and 32: RETREAT, RETREAT The cold rain thre
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