Inscape 2008

-c * ' •nscaDn 2DD8 ART &UTERARY MAGAZll , This issue is dedicated to Erica Lee Brown. IN·SCAPE lN.J The essential, distinctive, and revolutionary quality ofa thing: "Here is the inscape, the epiphany, the moment oftruth." (Madison Smartt Bell). inscape • 1 STAFF FACULTY ADVISORS George Eklund Chris Holbrook Rebecca Howell Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido Gary Mesa-Gaido Crystal Wilkinson EDITOR Alex Schulz EDITORIAL BOARD Ryan Andersons David Collins Stephen Graham Jessica Herrington Brandon Massengill Journey McAndrews William Salazar Craig Wagner COVER DESIGN David V Moore SPECIAL THANKS To Morehead State University (MSU) Department ofArt MSU Department ofEnglish, Foreign Languages & Philosophy MSU Office of Communications & Marketing MSU Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Program Kentucky Philological Association inscape · 2 CONTENTS POETRY Brandon Massengill Grey Words ............................................................................................................ 7 Lilith III ..................................................................................................................... 9 Sean Corbin Ode to the Abandoned Record Player................................................ 11 (Student Poetry Award) Perverted .................................................................................................................. 12 Journey McAndrews New York is Dead .............................................................................................. 12 The Single Hound ............................................................................................. 13 Patrick Johnson Sometimes.............................................................................................................. 16 Vickie Cimprich Baking Reflections ............................................................................................. 16 Untitled ..................................................................................................................... 17 Rhonda Pettit Ersatz Love .............................................................................................................. 18 The Likeness .......................................................................................................... 20 Sosha Pinson Finger Painting ..................................................................................................... 21 Craig Wagner House ofHorror ................................................................................................. 22 Luna ............................................................................................................................. 23 Sydney C. England How to Write a Poem...................................................................................... 24 Tommy Chaney I Laid in a Qµiet Spot, and That's How They Got Me............... 26 The Smallness of it is Eating Holes in Everything I Own....... 29 Nettie Farris The Fisherman and His Soul...................................................................... 30 Iron John .................................................................................................................. 31 Ryan Andersons Laugh .......................................................................................................................... 31 Lorie Zientra Light on Morning Pond ................................................................................ 32 Morning Up the Holler ................................................................................. 34 inscape •3 Jonathan Lounsberry My Tangible Orange........................................................................................ 35 Clark Gordon Seventeen Long Years ..................................................................................... 36 You Don't Get to Play .................................................................................... 37 Silena Skaggs Sex- The Whore's Rebuttal .......................................................................... 38 Stephen Graham Sudden Morning................................................................................................ 41 George Fillingham At the Intertribal Powwow Along the Trail ofTears, Hopkinsville, Kentucky............................................................................ 41 The Pantomime ................................................................................................... 42 William Salazar Death .......................................................................................................................... 42 Emptiness ................................................................................................................ 45 Anthony Fife Things I'll Leave in Kentucky When I Go ........................................ 46 Erica Lee Brown Eulogy ........................................................................................................................ 46 Red Lunar Fist ...................................................................................................... 49 FICTION Aaron Nelson The Bishop Game .............................................................................................. 5 l (Student Fiction Award) Tusk.in Roberts Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.............................................................................. 57 Jessica Stump Chapter 0 ne: The Answer .......................................................................... 64 Rex Easley Crossing Indiana in Darkness ................................................................... 69 Partick Johnson God's People .......................................................................................................... 77 Alex Schulz Night Shift ............................................................................................................... 86 inscape • 4 ART David V Moore True Nature ....................................................................................... 6 (First Place Art Award) Tara! Thompson The Thinker of Beijing ................................................................. 8 (Second Place Art Award) Laura Haywood CutAlongDottedLine ................................................................ 10 (Third Place Art Award) Shatosha Maddix Pear Shaped ....................................................................................... 19 (Honorable Mention Art Award) Colin Daugherty Way Too Soon ................................................................................... 28 Derek Holston Under the Boardwalk ................................................................... 33 Lydia Womack, Andrea Mullins, Untitled ................................................................................................. 40 Colby Nunemaker, Jessica Reyes & Jennifer Sheehan Kerry Adkins Dread..................................................................................................... 44 Steven Rodgers The Integrity of Women .............................................................. 47 Ryan Newberry Rarely Ignorant................................................................................ SO Casey McCown Casa Borinquen Viejo San Juan (series) .......................... 56 Caleb Spencer Youngster .............................................................................................. 63 Heather Utterback People Are Strange.......................................................................... 70 Joelle Schultz Cradling a Nest of Birds............................................................. 79 Deborah Slone Spring..................................................................................................... 85 Tara! Thompson The Doorway Greeters of China ............................................ 94 inscape • 5 DAVID VMooRE True Nature Digital Art (First PlaceArtAward) inscape • 6 POETRY BRANDON MASSENGILL Grey Words I listen to words, spoken & sung whispered & screamed but the Whispers are my favorite Soft, & barely audible, sounds half-underwater gurgled & faceless. I stare at everything, pavement & grass & overcast skies & I shy away from the sun, Harsh, much like the flickering fluorescent Lights, epilepsy splintering through my eyes into my head unforgiving & unattractive washing out features like scars & casting blinking shadows that are sharp & concave shadows that are both beautiful & terrifying. I really like the Whispers and Overcast Skies. inscape • 7 TARAL THOMPSON The Thinker ofBeijing Digital Photograph (Second Place Art Award) inscape • 8 Lilith III Her hands are large and thin, bones draped with indigo veins, glazed with ashen skin. A cigarette is scissored between two fingers, she lazily brings it to her lilac lips, and her black talons tapping on the window sound like rain. Her eyes are the Plutonian sky, cold and distant, glazed and maddening. I think of asking for a cigarette, but remember I have my own, so I ask for a light instead. Her head slowly turns my way, she blinks, a camera shutter in slow motion and she tells me the switch is by the sink. I ask her if she thinks we'll get cancer, she says we're both Leos, and I wish her sunglasses would eclipse her lifeless eyes, and I wish the gun in my coat wouldn't wake the neighbors. inscape • 9 2 LAURA HAYWOOD Cut Along Dotted Line Graphite Drawing (Third Place Art Award) inscape • 10 SEAN L. CORBIN (Student Poetry Winner) Ode to the Abandoned Record Player Don't beat yourself up. You were justified. The damn thing was just a hunk ofplastic and

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