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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In Which Rachel Pretends Everything Is
Okay by Irina Amouzou
Dear,
I spent a little too long in the shower this morning. But it wasn’t because I wanted
you washing me, I just loved the water. I thought about taking out the trash,
but I thought if I let it sit, you’d know, come over and remove it; you knew I
couldn’t do it myself.
But of course, this isn’t a metaphor for my heart. I’ve been empty since you left.
You remembered to take everything out of me.
I wish empty felt like nothing. Instead, empty feels like missed
Adventures of a Lonely Woman,
Like almost kisses,
Rain
Drops,
Turning into love making,
Us almost.
But not quite.
Love,
Rachel
Dear,
76
I was with another man tonight. He smelled like the lilacs from the shop around
the corner we loved to go to. I met him there, he was a visiting florist, so when he
inserted his fingers inside me, I could feel my heart pounding in my cunt which
was budding into a rose, and I remembered how you hated roses. You thought
they were overrated.
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