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Sharon Slilaty | Where Water Becomes Ice This edition of Breaking Ground is the collaboration of the Spring 2017 English 175 Class Professor Christopher Origer Paul Archer Abigail Clain Haley Marie Lipps Miranda Moses Alex Plesnar Careline Ramirez Jasmine Thorson As well as the many bright minds of the artists and writers represented within breaking ground 2017 BOUNDARIES SUNY Broome Community College Literary Magazine Binghamton, New York Please direct all correspondence to: Professor Christopher Origer, Editor Breaking Ground Department of English SUNY Broome Community College P.O. Box 1017 Binghamton, NY 13902 email: [email protected] Copyright © 2017 SUNY Broome Literary Magazine Breaking Ground Printed by Bob Carr 2.0 Printing, Binghamton, New York All rights to the works contained here are retained by the individual writers and artists represented in this issue of Breaking Ground. No part may be reproduced without their consent. Acknowledgements Extreme gratitude goes out to Rose Pero and Amanda Truin as assistant editors for all the late nights and numerous hours it took to get this edition of the magazine to completion; also to Josh Lewis for his sharp eyes in proofreading during the spring break; to Michael Bodnar, once again, for his helpful technical assistance; to Abigail Clain and Patrick Mulderig for final work on the cover; to Sandra Cohn and Maureen Schwarz for the technical wizardry in the final hours of production; and to Ciara Cable for sound InDesign advice before going to press. Thanks also to all the wonderful students of the Spring 2017 ENG175 class, who pitched in with enthusiasm in the several weeks of readings it took to sift through the numerous submissions. Transformation • Call for Submissions • Breaking Ground 2018 Send us your best original poetry, fiction, creative non fiction, memoirs, artwork, photography, or graphic stories for our annual theme issue. As with past issues the only criteria are vividness, vitality, depth of thought and expression and, above all, excellence. Open to all SUNY Broome students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The theme of the 2018 issue is transformation in all its permutations, which might include transcendence, migration, metamorphosis, and transmigration. Reading and Submission Period: September 1, 2017 to March 1, 2018 For submission guidelines, and to submit your creative work during the submission period, go to www2.sunybroome.edu/english/breakingground/ Table of Contents Alla Boldina – Fragmentation, or Breaking Through (painting)...................................Cover Sharon Slilaty – Where Water Becomes Ice (photograph) ......................... Inside Front Cover Introduction: Breaking Boundaries ...................................................................................... ix Alla Boldina – Stretching the Limits (painting) ...................................................................xii Haley Marie Lipps – Let Me Have This Dust (fiction)......................................................... 1 Susan Stracquadanio – Teacher (poem) ................................................................................6 Madelyn Chianis – Lesson (photograph) ...............................................................................7 Shelli Cordisco – Crack'd Houses (non-fiction) ......................................................8 Masha Morozov – Open Boundaries (photograph) ..............................................................10 Amanda Truin – Illumination in the Midwest (non-fiction) ...............................................11 Miranda Moses – Me (poem) ..............................................................................14 Sarah Russell – Forever Memories (non-fiction) ....................................................15 Amanda Truin – Galactic Santa Monica (non-fiction) .......................................................16 Quishanah Pieternella – Leading to Serenity (photograph) ..................................................17 Rob Woods – Vanilla Ice Cream (fiction).............................................................. 18 Richard Connolly – Lunette (poem) ..................................................................................28 Paul Archer – Genki (poem) ................................................................................................29 Alex Plesnar – Good Morning and Welcome to Camp Pembrooke (fiction)......................... 30 Sushma Madduri – Graceful Fall (photograph) ..................................................................36 Sushma Madduri – Graceful Fall (poem) ..........................................................................36 Amber Gance – Soul Tree (fiction) .....................................................................................37 Miranda Buckland – Green Tie Event (photograph) .............................................37 Haley Marie Lipps – Traveling Through (poem)................................................................ 38 Abigail Clain – Shine on in the End (poem) .......................................................................39 Josh Lewis – Whimsy (poem) .............................................................................................40 Jasmine Thorson – Dying Flame (poem) ............................................................................41 Celena McDonnell – Only Words (non-fiction) ..................................................................42 Jason Detrani – The Window (photograph) .......................................................................45 Miranda Moses – Her Story (fiction) ...................................................................46 Alla Boldina – Time Out of Mind (photograph) ................................................................50 Richard Connolly – Live Better (fiction)............................................................................ 51 Amber Gance – Her. (fiction) ............................................................................................62 Madelyn Chianis – 2 for 5 (photograph) ...........................................................................62 v Careline Ramirez – Angie (poem) ........................................................................................................63 Raphael Tombasco – The Social Party (fiction).................................................................................... 68 Miranda Moses – A Little Girl (non-fiction) .......................................................................................76 Jessica Marie Hranek – Melodious (poem) ..........................................................................................77 Amanda Truin – Between These Screens (prose poem) ...........................................................................78 Richard Schleider – Word (poem) ........................................................................................................80 Margaret Winchell – Asylum (photograph) ..........................................................................................81 Susan Stracquadanio – Fortress (poem) ................................................................................................82 Justin Howe – My Unwelcome Home (non-fiction)............................................................................. 84 Josh Lewis – Emergent Chemistry (poem) ............................................................................................87 Bunky Zelman – Curtains (poem) ....................................................................................................88 Ed Evans – What My Father Knew (non-fiction) .................................................................................89 Sarah Russell – Slanted Boundaries (photograph) .................................................................................92 Charles Stone – Barricades (poem) ......................................................................................................93 Bunky Zelman – What I failed to Mend (poem) ...............................................................................96 Liam Harrington – T-9 Months (poem) ................................................................................97 Dawn Shefler – The Paradox (fiction) ...................................................................................98 I. J. Byrnes – White Gold (fiction) .....................................................................................................102 Miranda Moses – Someone to Love (poem) ........................................................................106 Breige Graven – Yours, Mine, and Hours (non-fiction)........................................................ 107 Josh Lewis – LMIRL (poem) .............................................................................................................108 Liam Harrington – For You (poem) ....................................................................................109 Careline Ramirez – Best of Me (poem) ..............................................................................................110 Haley Marie Lipps – If You Know the Words to Speak of Other Possibilities... (poem) .............................112 Sarah Russell – The Temple (poem).................................................................................................... 113 Josh Lewis – I. (poem) .......................................................................................................................114 Guy