2009 Edition - Ramapo College of New Jersey
2009 Edition - Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Trillium <strong>2009</strong><br />
i am not mistaken<br />
Renee Dwyer<br />
i am not mistaken for anything other than what i am<br />
i come to you empty-handed and ask to be given everything<br />
the sky breaks before you do and closed eyes see clouds<br />
on the horizon it all looks smaller than the palm <strong>of</strong> your hand<br />
the grainy film <strong>of</strong> affection burning out right in the middle<br />
right where it gets good, because it always happens like that<br />
and i’ll never be able to get my money back. we pay for ever<br />
ything in increments. our bodies will wrinkle like old peaches<br />
and then who will ever say we had anything in common?<br />
this is the ellipsis <strong>of</strong> our story. we will grow up one day<br />
and not remember any <strong>of</strong> this. i come to you empty-handed<br />
and i leave empty-handed. we swallow ourselves from the<br />
feet up, and the sky begins to murmur just as it cuts out.<br />
Stir with Milk<br />
Kristen Moledo<br />
I’m beginning to notice the small scars on my face where chicken pox had marked<br />
their territory, where my mother had covered my nose in oatmeal as if the bath<br />
were hot sand, the sun freckling my cheeks. Can we eat it? I clenched my fists,<br />
with grainy lumps moving through my fingers asking her to step in so she could<br />
feel how wonderful it all was. She sank into the thickness, I wondered how we<br />
would ever get out, my mother wasn’t a very good swimmer. Our toes touched<br />
for awhile before we were fixed in the concrete breakfast we had mixed together.<br />
I was pleased to be stuck, if only she had closer.<br />
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