riverrun Vol. 47
This is Volume 47 of the UCCS Student Literary and Arts Journal that was begun in 1971 by Dr. C. Kenneth Pellow. For the last 40 years, it has been published and circulated at the end of every spring semester showcasing fiction, poetry, nonfiction and visual art that has been created by UCCS students.
This is Volume 47 of the UCCS Student Literary and Arts Journal that was begun in 1971 by Dr. C. Kenneth Pellow. For the last 40 years, it has been published and circulated at the end of every spring semester showcasing fiction, poetry, nonfiction and visual art that has been created by UCCS students.
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Missed by Natasha Pepperl
Maybe it’s just as well
you never see this world:
Construction projects always
take longer than planned.
Sometimes strong boys shoot
other strong boys in the back
of the head—the papers
mistake these dead for
“an unidentified man.”
We drive ungodly speeds
on too much blacktop—
anything for convenience!
—we ignore metal-crushed
bone and split skulls.
Maybe it’s just as well
you never see this world:
My mother has kitchen scars
down her hands and arms,
though oven mitts were
long-ago invented.
Maybe I would’ve broken you
like she broke dinner plates,
without a care for wounded
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