Windward Review Vol. 20 (2022): Beginnings and Endings
"Beginnings and Endings" (2022) challenged South Texas writers and beyond to narrate structures of beginnings and ends. What results is a collection of poetry, prose, hybrid writing, and photography that haunts, embraces, and consoles all the same. Similar to past WR volumes, this collection defies easy elaboration - it contains diverse tones, languages, colors, and creative spaces. Creative pieces within the text builds upon others, allowing polyvocal narratives to interlock and defy the logic of 'beginning-middle-end'. By the end of this collection, you will neither sense nor crave the finality that a typical text brings. Instead, you will be inspired to learn and create beyond a narrative linear structure. Your reading and support is sincerely appreciated.
"Beginnings and Endings" (2022) challenged South Texas writers and beyond to narrate structures of beginnings and ends. What results is a collection of poetry, prose, hybrid writing, and photography that haunts, embraces, and consoles all the same. Similar to past WR volumes, this collection defies easy elaboration - it contains diverse tones, languages, colors, and creative spaces. Creative pieces within the text builds upon others, allowing polyvocal narratives to interlock and defy the logic of 'beginning-middle-end'. By the end of this collection, you will neither sense nor crave the finality that a typical text brings. Instead, you will be inspired to learn and create beyond a narrative linear structure. Your reading and support is sincerely appreciated.
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John C. Mannone<br />
A Lesson<br />
Children play in the park, innocent<br />
of skin color or complexion<br />
of cultural differences, but guilty<br />
of love as evidenced by the sound of their laughter.<br />
A little boy slides down a red tube made of plastic,<br />
bumps into his playmate st<strong>and</strong>ing at the opening.<br />
She tumbles to the ground, her blonde hair flailing,<br />
splaying all over her freckled face rhapsodic with smiles.<br />
He helps her up, <strong>and</strong> as she brushes off the dirt<br />
from her lightly color jeans, he kisses her softly<br />
on the cheek (just as he had seen his father kiss<br />
his wife so many times before).<br />
She kisses him back, dimpled-face. They giggle.<br />
The vigilant mothers rush to their children<br />
calling out their names virtually in unison:<br />
“Katie! Come here, right now.”<br />
“Juanito, sin vergüenza!” (have you no shame?)<br />
The Mexicana turns to the American mother, utters<br />
in her sheepish, thick accent, “I’m sorry.”<br />
But the other mother only glares.<br />
The children do not see<br />
hostility, they would not even underst<strong>and</strong> it<br />
… yet.<br />
Jesus called a little child to st<strong>and</strong> among them. “Truly I tell you,” He<br />
said, “unless you change <strong>and</strong> become like little children, you will never<br />
enter the kingdom of heaven.”<br />
—Matthew 18:2,3 (Berean Study Bible)<br />
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