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Katie Allen Anna Newcomb Elsje Balfour Josiah Newcomb | 2016.v13 Brogue The Kade-Mica David Battles Josh Noé Nicole Bell Sara Papa Helena Blanco Minchun Park Addela Bransford Emily Polson Lindsay Gill Heather Rasmussen David Grimes Branden Shoots Trianne Harabedian Timothy Smith Wesley Hartfield Michael Tobin Jenna Herrington Amaryllis Torres Paul Lang Kalisse Van Dellen Lissie Massengale Kristine Weaver Carolyn McFaul Hannah Whiteman Mac Mitchell Evangeline Wilds Nathan Nance The Creative Arts Journal of Belhaven University 2016.v13 Senior Editor Additional Readers Emily Polson April Kruppenbach Minchun Park Assistant Editor Michael Tobin Nicole Bell Kristine Weaver Art Editors Faculty Advisor Mary Ansley Chitwood Dr. Randall Smith Emily Polson Cover Design Editorial Staff Morgan Zeigler Zadie Buehrle Lindsay Gill Layout & Printing Trianne Harabedian Dallas Printing, Inc. Karis Johnson Lissie Massengale Nathan Nance Kalisse Van Dellen The Creative Arts Journal of Belhaven University 2016.v13 brogue (brog), n. 1. a marked accent, esp. Irish or Scottish, when speaking English: a sweet lilt of brogue in her voice. 2. any strong regional accent. 3. a rough shoe of untanned leather, formerly worn in parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. ConTEnTS contents From the Editor 7 Contributor Biographies 189 Student Accomplishments 194 Belhaven University Information 203 Faith Is the Thing with an Anthem by Mac Mitchell 9 i. home Dust to Dust / Ten Trillion by Katie Allen 14 Centennial by Carolyn McFaul 16 The Piano Knows Something I Don’t Knowby Evangeline Wilds 17 Zakdoek by Elsje Balfour 19 The Ceremony: Morton County Kansas, 1935 by Hannah Whiteman 20 Noah Begat Joseph by Josiah Newcomb 21 Winter in the Apartment by Lindsay Gill 29 Der Mond by Nicole Bell 30 Smoke Break by Addela Bransford 31 Ghost in the Closet by Emily Polson 34 Of Borrowed Tassels and Empty Diploma Cases by Lissie Massengale 35 ii. departure Caleb and Auden by Kalisse Van Dellen 46 Two Swings by David Grimes 58 Louis by Josh Noé 59 Learning My Letters by Heather Rasmussen 60 The roblemP with Love Poems by Sara Papa 64 Salinity by Trianne Harabedian 65 Monster Eyes and Wild Flowers by Emily Polson 66 Japanese Aubade by Helena Blanco 76 Shells by Mac Mitchell 77 Old Memory by Minchun Park 79 iii. away One Traveler’s Beginning by Anna Newcomb 82 Tardy Angel by David Grimes 85 Like It or Not by Jenna Herrington 87 June, 1968 by Nathan Nance 88 We Never Went Stargazing by Kalisse Van Dellen 92 Brevard Chairs by Hannah Whiteman 93 Love Song to My Brother in Philadelphia by Kalisse Van Dellen 109 Sunk by Hannah Whiteman 110 5 THE BROGUE iv. displacement How to Be Alone by Timothy Smith 120 Daniel by Katie Allen 121 Conversation on a Skyscraper by Kade-Mica David Battles 122 Admiring Rocket Ships by Paul Lang 139 I Am by Branden Shoots 140 We Are Broken by Mac Mitchell 145 I Tell Them the Truth, of Sorts by Josiah Newcomb 146 A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Traveler by Emily Polson 147 Tangerines by Amaryllis Torres 151 The Crossroad of Gonkoral by Michael Tobin 153 v. relocation When Can I Claim Home? by Kalisse Van Dellen 164 Diary of the Mechanic’s Daughter by Kristine Weaver 169 Nickels by Timothy Smith 170 Twenty-Five by Lindsay Gill 171 Inconvenience of Present by Minchun Park 175 Religious Invention by Wesley Hartfield 176 Dishwater Whiskey by Lissie Massengale 177 Viticulture by Mac Mitchell 186 Pillo el Tocino by Amaryllis Torres 187 artwork Stay Awake by Emma Carter 37 Unearth by Coley Barkley 38 Entanglement by Matthew Cook 39 Michaela by Kyle Morrow 40 Lex by Kyle Morrow 41 Flume by Bethany Souder 42 Conglomerate by Mary Ansley Chitwood 43 Resolute 3 by Brittany Roberts 44 Great and Unsearchable Thingsby Lilli McFerrin 111 European Wanderings 1 by Alyson LeCroy 112 European Wanderings 2 by Alyson LeCroy 113 Jesse by Kyle Morrow 114 As Soon As You’re Done Mourning by Emma Ross 115 Hiraeth by Casey Powell 116 Deepest Depths by Amanda Thrall 117 Recollective 3 and Recollective 4 by Mary Ansley Chitwood 118 Om by Kyle Morrow 155 Ineffable by Amanda Thrall 156 Portal #6 by Casey Powell 157 The Unfamiliar Chronicle by Laura Tait 158 Resonance by Sharon Shealy 159 Untitled by Daniel Hause 160 You Know I Ain’t Done Nothing Wrong by Daniel Hause 161 Resilience by Alyson LeCroy 162 6 FRoM THE EDIT oR from the editor By EMILy PoLSoN n “Place in Fiction,” Eudora Welty says, “Whatever our place, it has been Ivisited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new, but that is enough.” When I was a child, I dreamed of discovering new lands like the characters in my history books. In time, I was crushed to learn that, in fact, little was left to discover. Thanks to satellite imaging, I was unlikely even to stumble upon an undiscovered island. I used to be haunted by the notion that I was resigned to be a follower. A city or country might be new to me, but I would never be the first to go there— or anywhere. This changed when I left the States to study in Northern Ireland for a semester. I made pilgrimages to London, Paris, and Amsterdam—all iconic, all tourist-weary—and I found in them something transcendent. I discovered I was taking part in a journey far bigger, far older than I, and, when I wrote about the experience, I made those well-traveled places new by recording my own vision of them. If the author of Ecclesiastes is right, and there is nothing new under the sun, maybe what we have to live by is Whitman’s and Blake’s belief that the whole world can be understood through a blade of grass or a grain of sand. The universal may be found in the specific, and writing about our particular experiences connects us to the humanity in others. The bizarre and beautiful thing about consciousness is that, while you will be the first to explore the paths within yourself, the roadmaps you create will seem familiar to those you share them with. Many locations are represented in this Brogue. Some may seem distant and exotic—Dublin, Ireland; Llantwit Major, Wales; Osaka, Japan. Some may seem humbler and closer to home—Clinton, Mississippi; Morton County, Kansas; Waukesha, Wisconsin. The stories set in these cities will transport you; they will reveal the nuance of an environment, embodied by the people who live within it. All these regions are old, yet the point-of-view makes them new. I believe, however, that our theme is most resonant in the metaphorical realms where authors and their characters find themselves: at the crux of a decision, at a point of conflict with a friend, at the end of themselves. A narrative 7 THE BROGUE common to all young people runs through this collection. All of us are on the journey to adulthood; we navigate the dynamics of leaving home, the dysphoria of being uprooted, and the difficulty of establishing a new home in a different reality. We tell this universal tale with stories set in specific places. Our authors are informed by their own unique journeys, but the narrative is the same. Wherever our contributors travel in the future, they will not be the first. The destinations themselves can never be new, but the vision can be. That is enough. 8 FAITH IS THE THIng wITH An AnTHEM faith is the thing with an anthem or (The Boy Who Chased Music and Decided to Pay Construction Workers to Move His House to the Mountains, offering to Pay Them in Vermont Beer) By Mac Mitchell for Faith Schumacher The Jackson, Mississippi night sky conceals beauty behind a fog, starlight veiled in black and red smoke. But the basketball coach driving the bus back to the high school looks at the smudge sky and thinks the discoloration is beautiful. It is midnight, and the players have been riding for three hours now. Most of them sleep huddled beneath their jackets and blankets dreaming of the game and the girls they love. Some dream of the future, imagining gold watches and fast cars. One boy remains awake because the bus heater is broken, and he left his sweats and hoodie at home. He has white earphones in and leans against the cold metal below the window and stares out at the white headlights of cars and the moonlit outline of treetops. He considers his immediate future: graduation and the massive debt he will have in five years. He has little ambition and doesn’t know where he is going. He thinks of a girl, too, but the girl does not love him, in fact she hasn’t for a while now. And the boy cannot know this, but he will not be alive in five years. 9 THE BROGUE He does know the Holy Ghost breathes to the sound of every new song. He learned this from the girl, but she also told him the only lovers who teach us wisdom are the ones who break our hearts. He later realizes he just needed to exchange skies During sophomore year at Mississippi College, his great uncle dies and leaves him five thousand dollars. He quits college, buys a guitar at a place in Clinton called When Pigs Fly and moves to Vermont. Tells his parents he has to chase the music. They tell the neighbors they’ve disowned him, but send him letters with bible verses, telling him to come home and study Biology.