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The Mercury 2008

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Lights And Shadows - 2008, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Lantern Vol. 75, No. 1, Fall 2007, Brett Celinski, Katie Lecours, Dayna Stein, Louisa Schnaithmann, Tim Garay, Tori Wynne, Christopher Schaeffer, Pete Lipsi, Marykate Sullivan, Jen Mingolello, India Mcghee, Colin Ottinger, Megan Ormsby, Natalie Rokaski, Georgia Julius, Abigail Raymond, Christopher Curley, Aaron Garland, Ian O'Neill, Kristin O'Brassill, Marjorie Vujnovich

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Black Cat
• Divorce
• The Picture in the Basement
• An Ode to the '50s Housewife; or Go Go Sylvia Plath
• Paradise from a Clock
• The Fifth
• Moveable Feast
• Deathbed
• July 17th
• Words
• Autobiography
• The Raving
• The Dream Hater
• The Moon Rose Late
• Tree, the Big, Very Old One in the Middle of Campus
• Apple Bit
• Sub Atomic Romance
• God Came
• Extinction
• Ski Masks and Knee Caps
• Of Silhouettes and Dominoes

Maho Bay, Near The Astrologer's Table, Lyn Lifshin

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yellow bird on

the table, two

curious lizards

What The Raven Said, Barbara Crooker

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as he balanced on a branch of Douglas fir,

was that it's dark under the stars, the planet

Slow Change, Rane Arroyo

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I thought, it's done, I'm out.

My father died, the women in

Untitled, Sudie Nostrand

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This is Penelope speaking.

You tell me

you've killed a big man

with one eye

Butterflies And Honey, B. Z. Niditch

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You keep your voice

shivering in the blue sun

butterflies and honey

Between Us There Are More And More Things, Becky Kennedy

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Frying bacon in the morning

every morning washing dishes in a place

where I see trees

Terrible Twos, Charles Harper Webb

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O God of Mercy, drop me in the sea.

Turn my feet into propellers; my chest,

The Walnut, David Cappella

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Consider the walnut

its crenellation, its meat

like a miniature human brain

Photography, Rustin Larson

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Earth takes a long-exposure photo of herself--

her apartment a kind of camera obscura--

The Third Of May, 1808, At Madrid: The Shootings On Principe Pio Mountain, Oil On Canvas, 1814, Ravi Shankar

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When they come for you, Cossack-capped,

in lockstep, carrying the black eye of death

against their shoulders, how will you react?

Two Swans In A Pond Next To The Highway, J. R. Solonche

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They have chosen well, these two

swans, one swimming the circumference

of the water, its neck a parenthesis

Elegy For The Residents Of The Niagara Apartments, Ken Meisel

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I

Because there are stories too disturbing to retell

I have to first talk about the field of yellow flowers

Compost, Ravi Shankar

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Filling a tarp full of spindled elm leaves

that cling and loosen in wake of dragging

Squid, Mary Ann Mayer

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We dissected one in school,

and it squirted ink all over the room

when I squeezed it.

For Chance, Keep Beauty Warm, Nancy Lee Craven

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Keep truth ardent, fresh and limber

protect it by finding it in lowly places

and leave it there--

New In Town, Nancy White

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Yes, he still drops by, still for no reason. Even

today when rain bathes the house and

the path sheds its glove of dust.

Late Visions, Lynn Domina

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He's an old man with an infant

daughter dead seventy years.

"And Today", Jack Lindeman

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And today I wonder what should be done

and what not done,

and whether there is really

any difference between the two

Drawing Blanks, John Azrak

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I turned my memory over

to you when, unexpectedly

A Field Of Pumpkins, Martha Christina

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Glimpsed from the train

they're a sudden

and short-lived gift.

In Some Town's Junk Shop, John Hazard

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A photo: someone's tall father leans on a shovel

in failing light. It's black and white, but I see

the orange in the tip of his smoke

The Iris And The Blade, Kathleen Hellen

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The body Japanese:

perfect as the words;

Rory Gilley, Cody Stratton

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People always wonder

But never question why

Some Less Well-Tempered Claviers, John Grey

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This thinking is not all solitary.

Sometimes I take music along.

Johann Sebastian Bach,

Falcon, Colleen Abel

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The falconer makes a show of the release:

pretending to heave the bird to open air,

Falling Leaves, Gary Hanna

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In the crispness

of the night

I reach out, knowing

Body Piercing, Janet Proulx

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When he was five, my brother was chased by bees

after poking their hive with a stick