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Mangrove Review Vol. 15 VOLUME 15 MangroveReview 2018 Executive Editor Editors Taylor West Gabriela Bonilla Callie Brannon Elizabeth Feins Assistant Sarah Lee Executive Editor Dianna Sandora Michael Rotaru Aliza Torres Caylee Weintraub Managing Editor Temitayo Abdulkareem Faculty Co-AdvisorS Emily Woolf Vallier Design Editor and Lori Cornelius Jason Elek Associate Advisor Heath Callahan Special thanks to Jim Brock Mangrove Review is the student-edited literary and arts magazine for Florida Gulf Coast University, showcasing the work of FGCU students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and members of the community. The views and opinions expressed in Mangrove Review are solely those of the individual authors and in no way represent those of the editors and staff of Mangrove Review, employees of Florida Gulf Coast University, or the University Board of Trustees. Mangrove Review gratefully acknowledges support from the Honors College, the Office of Undergraduate Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Student Government of Florida Gulf Coast University. If there are no mangroves, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree without roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea... — words of a Thai fisherman Mangrove Review takes its name from the mangrove tree. Of the more than 50 species of mangroves worldwide, Florida’s three na- tive species — black, white, and red — form the habitat necessary to preserve the life cycle of the estuaries that line the length of the Florida peninsula. Without them, Florida would quite possibly be nothing more than a mere nub off the coast of Georgia. Mangrove Review is published annually in the spring. Mangrove Review will consider submissions of poetry, prose, and artwork from Florida Gulf Coast University students, alumni, faculty, staff, administrators, and the community at large. The reading period for submissions is from September 1 to November 30 of each year. Submission guidelines Submissions must be previously unpublished and accompa- nied by a short biography. Please do not put your name on the manuscript or file name. Instead, include a cover page with the title of your piece, your name, and contact information. Poetry Submit no more than five poems per reading period. Prose Submit up to four narratives, but no more than 10 total pages (3,000 words) typed and double-spaced, with 1-inch margins, for any one reading period. Art All artwork must be submitted as a high-resolution JPEG image, with the title of the artwork as file name. We will consider no more than five images by any one artist per reading period. Submit your materials to [email protected] Copyright © 2018 by Mangrove Review No portion of Mangrove Review may be reproduced without permission. MR Mangrove Review Contents Poetry The Gardener `Kelly Canaday ........................................................................................................... 9 Busy Callie Brannon ........................................................................................................ 10 Because You Left Me Michael Pineda ....................................................................................................... 11 You Won’t Find Anything Here Trevor Lewis ............................................................................................................ 13 Unplanned Annmarie Ferry ...................................................................................................... 14 Tell Me to Breathe Callie Brannon ........................................................................................................ 15 Nightmare Callie Brannon ........................................................................................................ 16 fuck your sorry Brianna Ganzini ...................................................................................................... 17 Writing Through the Wars: Documenting Military Messages Through Poetry One Day Sydney Van Dreason .............................................................................................. 19 It’s Just Training Sydney Van Dreason .............................................................................................. 20 Hear Me Sydney Van Dreason .............................................................................................. 22 Yes, I’m a Woman Sydney Van Dreason .............................................................................................. 23 You and Me Sydney Van Dreason .............................................................................................. 24 Language, Love, and Circumlocutions Day by Day Alexander Sell ......................................................................................................... 25 Too West Makes an East Alexander Sell ......................................................................................................... 26 Aporetic and Ineffable Alexander Sell ......................................................................................................... 27 Upon Return Alexander Sell ......................................................................................................... 28 Thinking of Myself Alexander Sell ......................................................................................................... 29 Hank Williams’ Last Ride to Nashville Savana Scarborough ............................................................................................... 30 Visual Arts Showcase Quiet in the Chaos Erica Terese Krueger .............................................................................................. 33 Summer Rain Savannah Jensen ..................................................................................................... 34 Sunset #3 Savannah Jensen ..................................................................................................... 35 Waiting for the Resurrection Savannah Jensen ..................................................................................................... 36 Grey Unicorns Erica Terese Krueger .............................................................................................. 37 Troubled Thoughts of a Struggling Soul Leah Picciano .......................................................................................................... 39 Prose Lake Caylee Weintraub ................................................................................................... 41 To Die Will Be an Awfully Big Adventure Elizabeth Feins ........................................................................................................ 43 Nothing More Brianna Ganzini ...................................................................................................... 51 Rosalie’s Letter Kristen Petry ........................................................................................................... 53 The Coyote’s Apprentice Kristen Petry ........................................................................................................... 59 Ungodly Stars Ryan Kraczon .......................................................................................................... 62 Salted Fields Alexander Luke ....................................................................................................... 70 Miles vs. The Coyote Michael Rotaru ....................................................................................................... 76 Relational Surrender Mark Massaro ......................................................................................................... 79 About the Contributors ........................................................................ 89 Cover photo by Erica Terese Krueger MR 2017 FGCU Writing Awards winner Kelly Canaday The Gardener He’s the fly on your front porch that sends lost vessels, lapses of skin over the striped Earth The sun wakes scalloped ferns on the edges of the yard, a flimsy banner for the voices drowned in sleep He sounds of slot machines and organs playing as he tends to the prison in between the windows and the gates he’s violent to the ground so he isn’t violent to the face that stands at the washing machine inside, softened from the lace curtain 9 Callie Brannon Busy Running around like your head is cut off. Typing like your fingers have already bled out. Talking faster to get what needs to be said out. Numb from not being able to express your thoughts. Empty from lack of life. The world runs on money. Money, it takes time to accumulate enough to survive. Surviving and not depleting, Like a balloon on low fumes. Fumes that surround you because there are no windows to open. Open, when was the last time you sat and breathed in fresh air? Take that breath. Freeze yourself in place. Enjoy that moment. Sleep that day away. Wake up! Run like your head is cut off. Type like your fingers have already melted away. Talk like you have no more breath left. Think while you still have a thought to think. Over, and over, and over, and over. Till one day you stop. Stop! While there is still a tomorrow. 10 Michael Pineda Because You Left Me Because you persisted, I was born. Because you struggled, I did not. Because you loved me, I flourished. Because you believed, I was arrogant and proud. You gave me warm arms and a dreamer’s heart. Yet because of you, I kept it to myself. You shrouded me in protection, as if to keep me from falling in front of others. Fearing I would be judged but more secretly you would. Together we were killing
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