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Au literar_y arts, rev1ew Fall 2004, Volume 30, Issue 2 The University of Alabama at Birmingham COVER ART BY DOUG BAULOS FROM HIS SERIES WHEEL OF LIFE Aura literar_y arts rev1ew Volume 30, Issue 2 Fall 2004 The University of Alabama at Birmingham Office of Student Publications HUC 1351530 3rd Ave. South Birmingham, AL 35294-1150 Phone- 205.934.3216 Fax - 205.934.8050 Email - [email protected] $6.00 Copyright © 1974-2004 Aura Literary Arts Review. No part of this publica tion may be reproduced in any way, shape or form without the express writ ten consent of the artist in question. All rights revert to each respective artist after publication in this magazine. For information on reaching an artist in regard to republication of work, feel free to contact the magazine. ISSN 0889-7433 Aura Literary Arts Review Editor-in-Chief Carl Chang Associate Editors Michael Davis Laurel Mills Christina Schmitz Art and Design Editor Jacqueline Homm Faculty Advisor Tony Crunk Student Publications Advisor Amy Kilpatrick Aura Literary Arts Review is a semi-annual publication funded through the Board of Student Publications at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Aura Literary Arts Review is staffed entirely by graduate and undergraduate students of the uni versity. All proceeds from advertising and the sale of the magazine go to help fund both Aura and the other student publications of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Submission Guidelines All submissions should be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Without such, no response will be offered in regard to publication, nor will the submission be returned. Please do not send previously published work or simultaneous submissions. Both will be automatically rejected. All submissions of relatively great length (short stories, essays, plays, etc.) should include a copy of the work in electronic format (prefer ably on diskette). Submissions of poetry should not include more than five poems and should not total more than ten (10) typed, double-spaced pages. Visual artwork of all forms is accepted; slides are preferred but not required. Aura Literary Arts Review supports the literary and artistic talents of the residents of Alabama. Any submissions from outside the state of Alabama will not be considered. Please include a copy of the artist's name on each page of written work or on the back of each piece of visual artwork (if this is possi ble). Contact information for the artist should also be easily accessible. Advertising/Sponsorship/Subscription Information Advertising opportunities as well as sponsorship opportunities are available. Subscriptions to Aura Literary Arts Review are also avail able. Please contact the magazine for more details. Contact Information Aura Literary Arts Review University of Alabama at Birmingham HUC 135 1530 3rd Ave. So. Birmingham, AL 35294 Phone: (205) 934-3216 Fax: (205) 934-8050 Email: [email protected] Table of Contents editor's introduction ....................................................................... ix .E>ark.sdale-Ma!:Jnard Frize Winners Poetry Noel Scott Poor Memory ......................................... 129 Fiction Ramey Channell Voltus Electricalus and Strata Illuminata ............................ 130 Foems Kate Asson Rabbit. ..................................................... 116 Jerma Bazzell Still Waiting ........................................... l26 Ivey Brown Rejects ....................................................... 79 Ramey Channell In Belfast ................................................... 54 Tina Harris At a Poetry Reading at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church............. l Pray Without Ceasing .............................. 2 Ann Hoff Sestina ......................................................... 4 Ashley Hulsey The moon has been slipped .................. 71 Demon Possessed .................................... 72 Aisha Johnson I Can Fly ................................................... 84 Clifton Kelly Your Back Porch ...................................... 51 What a Girl Can Do ................................. 52 Jennifer Land Indigenous ............................................. 127 Susan Sailors Watcher .................................................. 120 Brent Stauffer Treasure .................................................... 82 Western lllusion of Separation........... :--fl~ ~ ~~ceSteel 4:32 am ...................................................... 39 Living........................................................ 40 Madison Stubblefield at a cactus ............................................... 80 Chris Tidwell Clothespin............................................... .85 Brandy Yates Ruby of the Desert Sky ........................... 86 Quinn White the need to heal her blush................... 107 Pale Blue Opening ................................ 108 Stor:l Tony Crunk The Kid With Two Fathers ..................... 16 Short Stor:l Thomas Goldstein Moving Toward the Gul£.. ....................... 6 Mike Herndon Luke Skywalker ..................................... .41 Catherine Roth Evergreen................................................. 74 Creative Nonfiction Doug Baulos Near the Hill of the Poisoned Tree ...... l03 Reagan Rhone Fishing the Cahaba ............................... 109 Miranda Wade Who's Afraid of the Big Brown Turd? ................................... 121 Visual Art John Butler Untitled ..................................................... 23 Japanese Charcoal... ................................ 24 Erin Childress Haley ......................................................... 25 Jason .......................................................... 26 Christopher Dang One Day .................................................... 27 ~ ~ustan Creech The Breaker Boys .................................... 28 "= The BreadLine ......................................... 29 A Look Back ............................................. 30 Distance .................................................... 31 Gene Ferreiro Perception ................................................ 32 Tree-form ................................................. 33 Michael Lukacovic Untitled .................................................... 34 Untitled .................................................... 35 Amber McLeroy Timeless .................................................... 36 Fork Schmork. ......................................... 37 Roman in Motion .................................... 38 Lindsay Mouyal Self portrait... ........................................... 55 Cattails ...................................................... 56 Woven...................................................... 57 Everything's better in 3' s ...................... .58 Gloria Nuckols Untitled .................................................... 59 Untitled .................................................... 60 Untitled .................................................... 61 Girl with Flowers .................................... 62 Stephanie Sides Dreaming................................................. 63 The Future ................................................ 64 Self Portrait. ............................................. 65 Yosuke Sho Incomplete Trinity .................................. 66 Diagonal Relationship of a cube ........... 67 Paul Cordes Wilm Fashion Talker ......................................... 68 Mr. Bright Ideas ....................................... 69 Loaded Conversation 1.. ........................ 70 Quin Zhang Series ..................................................... ... 87 Doug Baulos Wheel of Life (Series) ............................ 95 Contributors ................................................................................... 133 Cover Art b~ Doug !)aulos \ Colophon Aura Literary Arts Review is printed by Alabama Web Press in quantity of 400 copies per issue. Paper used for text is 70# Exact Text, Natural. Paper used for 16-page visual art inserts is 70# Cougar Opaque Text, White. The cover is printed on 80# Dull Cover, White. This issue is 144 pages in length. The editorial process is performed with QuarkXPress 6.1 running on a Dell Precision 360 PC with Microsoft Windows XP. All visual artwork was sub mitted electronically and toned in Photoshop 6.0. Fonts used are Papyrus for title-level headings on pages, names on Contributors page; Perpetua for issue information on Title Page, titles on visual artwork pages, text on inside cover; Garamond for contact informa tion on Title Page; Arial Rounded MT Bold for page headers and page numbers; Imprint MT Shadow for artist names on visual artwork pages; Book Antiqua for general text; Comic Sans MS for the non-heading text on the Story pages. Images of the frame provide a window into the creative worlds of litera ture and art. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Art and literature and Alabama. For many of us who grew up in the state of Alabama, mentioning those terms in the same breath invited cynical ridicule and sad laughter. Art and literature in Alabama?-irreconciable, a contradiction in terms. Art and literature were created in places like New York or San Francisco. These were live, vibrant places, and many of us young people wanted to escape to them, away from the dead carcass of culture. This place we referred to as home, "Alabama," was uttered with a sarcastic smile followed by a wistful sigh and shaking of one's head. Art and literature and Alabama. As editor of this mag azine, those terms together don't seem so strange anymore.