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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Cianna Martinez<br />
The Tainted Painting<br />
There’s a gallery,<br />
Paintings on the wall.<br />
You paint this picture,<br />
But it’s not like that at all.<br />
You paint the beauty<br />
Of what you want people to see,<br />
But why does it have to look bad on me?<br />
You paint with thick strokes<br />
That hide thin strokes of pain,<br />
Just like umbrellas<br />
Keep us from the rain.<br />
The shutters cover<br />
Everything you hide,<br />
No one sees what’s<br />
Really inside.<br />
Inside these walls<br />
Are screams of<br />
Sadness,<br />
But you hang your paintings<br />
And they hide the madness.<br />
Inside the gallery<br />
Sits a painting you hide.<br />
A painting,<br />
You want no one to find.<br />
It speaks so clearly<br />
It ruins your image,<br />
The most important thing to you<br />
that gives you privilege.<br />
You get exasperated,<br />
when the paint starts to fade.<br />
I’m your masked painting,<br />
That you can’t portray<br />
Robb Jackson Highschool Poetry 3rd Place (<strong>20</strong>21)<br />
<strong>Beginnings</strong> X <strong>Endings</strong><br />
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