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LITERARY JOURNAL OF WILLIAM CAREY UNIVERSITY 2021 Department of Language and Literature Laurinda Johnson Diane The Maker Flower The Indigo 2021 William Carey University CONTENTS Landon Adams 22 Burning Bridge 28 American Absalom Rachel Ann Farnham Stephanie Arnold 27 Not Downtrodden 23 Benjamin we go to Baton Rouge 24 Snowset Peace Bailey Adkins Virginia Fennell 34 Holoferne 34 Questions Julia Berry 36 Wealth 34 Searching Thomas Ford 35 Okay 48 A Mask of Raindrops Leanna Grace Blakeslee Cl ay Gr aves 12 Her 42 Chapel 46 Xikrins Boy Gr ant Guthrie Emily Branan 4 To Mr. Frost 30 Me and You, Through the Seasons 20 Impermanence Garry Breland 24 Supplications Upon Reading 9 Requiem for a Wheel Kierkegaard’s Purity of Heart Rose Bruce 21 Garden Lesson 44 Unfailing Love Jacob Havard Allison Chestnut 5 Untitled, Charcoal 40 Grate Anna Henderson Robert Cox 37 Brush Creek 53 Count and Do Not Rhyme 14 Heaven’s Splendor Dailynn Davis 17 Just Breathe 53 Answer Dewanda Dawn Hutchinson 32 Books 33 The Crossroads 21 Paper Nature Gabrielle Hulin Kimberly DeLorenze 34 Paths 10 Deluge 46 Future Michael DeLorenze Laurinda Diane Johnson 26 España Cover, The Flower Maker Loretta Fairley Lauren Ashley Jones 7 Relevance 7 Teachers 25 2020 Christian Lovett 25 Bumblebee 26 Awaiting Conversation Teensy Treasures Trinity Stewart 25 Mankind 23 Expressions of Spring Editor’s Notes C. S. Lewis said, “Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is CONTENTS Continued written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” (Who knows what that means?) Every other Indigo starts with a quote and I do not want to break tradition. If you read the Editor’s notes from previous editions, each year contained a new obstacle. Murph Little Deanna Roberts This year is the same, with trials which we advance through, for the university, as a country, 7 Arson 10 Depths and, perhaps, the modern world. I feel like The Indigo reflects the gamut of emotion, faith, Alysen Matthews 45 Koi Pond imagination, and humanity during those trials where every moment becomes important. It 48 179 Skulls 44 Night Lines takes bravery to share a part of oneself with others, in any medium. It is the intrepidity we 19 Untitled Jennifer Scroggins anticipate in the writings of the Carey family, each person writing miracles in small letters, Mike Madaris 47 UnMasked sharing common stories that are a different echo in the retelling. We encourage looking for 18 Behind the Smiles Meagan Smith a reflection of yourself within the pieces. 38 Two Ticket Stubs 5 For my Mammaw, Toshiko Pigford, Sincerely, Darian McCord who has gone home. Kimberly DeLorenze, Graduate Student Editor 43 Holy Name 22 Prism 39 Words Raymond Smith What a year. Few normal things have continued but writing and creativity are two of the few things that always continue. In fact, writing and creativity often flourish in times of hardship, 15 Loved Me First 37 Tree creating poets and writers out of people who would not usually have the time or desire to sit Rebecca Ann Mowdy Trinity Stewart and create. The talents of William Carey’s students, alumni, faculty, and staff are inspiring. I 8 Wagon Wheel 34 Invertebrate hope you enjoy reading The Indigo as much as we have enjoyed editing it. 7 Untitled Frontispiece - Teensy Treasures 25 Bird Tree Rebecca Lauren Thompson Sincerely, 20 Sunset Back Cover - Life’s Replacement Emily Branan, Undergraduate Student Editor Sydney D. Myers 32 Soul Scream 36 Still Life Alayna Weathers Jessie Parker 32 Alice Acknowledgements It is with much appreciation that we express gratitude to all persons who contributed to The Indigo. There were many insightful submissions, making the production of this edition a joyful 4 Ceramic Totem 31 Sonnet process. We have been energized and challenged by the exceptional talent of students, 12 Nocturnal Sar ah Wedgeworth faculty, staff, and alumni. The Indigo staff offers special thanks to Dr. Ed Ford for lending Sage Pendergr ass 32 Quest his expertise in design and layout. We also thank Mrs. Barbara Tillery for printing copies 31 Inside Out Chloe Wicker of The Indigo for those who wished to have a tangible version. It has been a great honor Jessica Pulivarthi & Janie Wiggins 15 The Axe Forgets working with and having the support of so many, particularly the Department of Language 11 Primrose Mnemosyne 14 Notre Dame and Literature. Within that department, Mrs. Dolores O’Mary was our lifeline when we had Jessica Pulivarthi 45 Vertigo questions and Dr. Tom Richardson, our department chair, was our foundation. Now, it is 11 Primrose Bethanie Wilson with great enthusiasm and consideration that we present this edition of The Indigo to our 34 Friend’s Gesture readers, and we hope you find something relatable and enjoyable inside. Sincerely, The Indigo Editors Kimberly DeLorenze, Co-Editor Emily Branan, Co-Editor Allison Chestnut, Faculty Sponsor Font Cover: Laurinda Diane Johnson, The Flower Maker, The Indigo is a publication of William Carey University, All Rights Reserved. Back Cover: Rebecca Lauren Thompson, Life’s Replacement 2 The INDIGO 2021 The INDIGO 2021 3 To Mr. Frost (An Open Letter After Reading “Pea Brush,” “Putting In The Seed,” “A Time To Talk,” And “The Cow In Apple Time”) by Grant Guthrie I confess my affection for you Though in time, geography, and creed We are most aptly described as separate As two poets, both farmers, can be. Untitled-Charcoal Jacob Havard For my Mammaw, Toshiko Pigford, We two are in love with the small things who has gone home. Of the earth, the unnoticed event That shoulders its way to the surface by Meagan Smith Amid those of more anxious intent. I don’t know if I truly understood my Mammaw (grandmother, for those not fluent in Southern) until last year. All the little pieces of her, the In your lines the mundane is awakened memories I have and the stories I was told all fell together as I learned As a seed, after rain in its season, about the Japanese artform “Gaman.” Finds its strength in the quickening sun The word “Gaman” means “to endure the seemingly unbearable with And lends mystery to the gardener’s reason. patience and dignity.” This verb turned into the name of an art form and was a huge piece of the Mammaw puzzle for me. But, to help you reading, I’ll briefly explain how Japanese Americans practiced Gaman Cautious friends will admonish my kinship internment campus during WWII. With you, I do so myself. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Americans, government and citizens More canonical pundits are present alike, were scared. So, the government gathered Japanese Americans and forced them to live in internment camps from 1942-1945. They Taking rest in their homes on my shelf. were not comfortable places. They were not home. The people there were expected to press pause, idle their lives, until the government decided to let them go. But when senses are hungry for pricking Your thin volume I take from its place A large number of internees were children, and the adults in the camps were determined to help them keep their innocence and to prepare To hold nature’s delight to my bosom, them for when they could live free. So, they organized themselves: Ceramic Totem doctors, teachers, seamstresses, artists, dance instructors, athletes, Her creator’s purpose to trace. Jessie Parker 4 The INDIGO 2021 The INDIGO 2021 5 engineers, drafters of architecture… they When they returned to America, they Arson made a community. came back to nothing. She not only had to by Murph Little adjust to Southern culture and to the scorn Dana’s grandparents met in an internment of Americans who did not like Japanese Arson was a word reserved for fiction camp and one of Dana’s most prized people, but she and her husband also had until the fire swept up possessions is an umbrella, 6 inches in to build a life from the ground up with her diameter, made from toothpicks, a broken first child on her hip. And yet, they built a and called us from our home chopstick, and cigarette papers. It’s beautiful life anyway. She found Christ, she to watch a second die. beautiful. Dana found a book called The Art made friends, she opened the eyes and of Gaman by Delphine Hirasuna where she hearts of a community as she endeared discovered that internees planted gardens, herself to them. made broaches, painted masterpieces, created dolls, formed delicate miniature She was a wonderful seamstress, making flower arrangements, and more—all out of clothes for her 4 children including gorgeous things they found. Trash discarded, bottles couture dresses for her two daughters. (She and jars all used up. made an Easter dress or two for me, too, I just remembered.) Untitled The Japanese-Americans used creativity Rebecca Ann Mowdy to endure the seemingly unbearable She laughed fully with her whole body, with patience and dignity during this nothing held back, and she loved with unfathomable experience. I believe my her whole soul. Her life wasn’t all bad Mammaw did the same. She was not experiences she had to repurpose, but she Relevance Teachers in America during WWII. She met my always took the trash, the leftovers, and grandfather in Japan after graduating from made beautiful things you could hold in by Loretta Fairley by Lauren Ashley Jones a prestigious college in Japan, which was your hands and beautiful things you could very strange because women in Japan hold in your heart. Gaman.