Volume 27, Issue 1

Volume 27, Issue 1 WWW.SVSU.EDU/CARDINALSINS Cardinal Sins is produced by the students and staff of Saginaw Valley State University and is published on campus by the Graphics Center. Works by students, staff , alumni, and faculty are eligible for submission. All submissions are considered for publication unless otherwise requested. Cardinal Sins staff members are excluded from receiving an award in any category. Judging is done by Cardinal Sins staff members. Identities of contributors are not revealed until after the fi nal selections are made. Cardinal Sins is designed in Adobe InDesign using Myriad Pro and Ambulance Shotgun fonts. Cover designed by Rob Bastek. SVSU does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical impairment, disability, or veteran status in the provision of education, employment, or other services. Copyright 2007, Cardinal Sins All subsequent publishing rights are returned to the artist. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Christi Griffi s ACADEMIC ADVISOR Chris Giroux ASSOCIATE EDITOR Courtney A. Farmer ASSISTANT EDITORS Matthew Falk Tyler Germain Ashley Schafer EDITORIAL STAFF Britt Barnett Peter Brian Barry Tim Kenyon Eric Morningstar Holly Morningstar Shiloh Slaughter Brandt Snook GRAPHIC DESIGNER Rob Bastek BUSINESS/BENEFACTOR MANAGER Tracy Ulch WEB SUPPORT Nick Blessing tableTABLE ofOF CONTENTScontents EDITOR’S NOTE..............................................................................................................6 COLOR ARTWORK ALCOHOLICISM James M. Zimmer II......................................................................9 CO2 Andrea Beff rey....................................................................................................10 *GEOMETRIC COMPOSITION I Robert Darabos...............................................17 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY JAPANESE KOI POND Melony Blasius..................................................................18 BRIDGE Tabitha Meyering.......................................................................................21 CLUB 211 Rachel Wooley.........................................................................................22 NYMPHAEACEAE ONE Robert Darabos..............................................................47 PINK PONEYS David Eudosio Smith.....................................................................48 *RETIRED LOBSTER TRAP Adam Baudoux.........................................................51 STUMBLE ABODE Jesse Fretwell...........................................................................52 COLORS WORKING TOGETHER Amanda Alliston............................................59 FOCUS James Fry........................................................................................................60 BLACK & WHITE ARTWORK BOY WALKER Dawn Kehr.........................................................................................16 TEASE James M. Zimmer II......................................................................................29 LIFE Ashley Roggenbuck.........................................................................................43 *SHADOWS AMONG MEN James M. Zimmer II...............................................54 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY LATER, SKATER David Eudosio Smith..................................................................40 LET’S GO SLAM DANCE David Eudosio Smith.................................................42 LISTEN James Fry........................................................................................................44 MORNING SUN Kristen Latuszek..........................................................................46 SAINT ANDRE D’ARGENTEUIL Ryan Martin.......................................................50 *SYMMETRY Adam Baudoux..................................................................................57 SHORT FICTION A TELEVISED WAR Blair Giesken............................................................................12 REFRIED, LIMA, PINTO Tom Wheatley..................................................................23 *ALTERNATIVE OXYGEN AND THE STORY OF SIMEON MINOR Robbie Pieschke....................................................................................................................37 FLASH FICTION COSMONAUT BLUES Tom Wheatley.......................................................................7 *MATERNALISM Blair Giesken................................................................................31 AUSPEX NEMORENSIS Matthew Falk..................................................................35 SANDCASTLE TOWERS Britt Barnett....................................................................45 POETRY CITY RIVER Tom Wheatley.......................................................................................11 INTO THE MORNING AIR IT RISES Tom Wheatley...........................................19 MALIGNANT SPECIES Carlie Hacha......................................................................20 OM Matthew Falk.......................................................................................................27 MONTANITA II Rachel Wooley................................................................................28 AT O’HARE Daniel Schell..........................................................................................30 **SUGAR VS. SWEET ‘N LOW Amelia Glebocki.................................................32 BATTLEGROUND Daniel Schell..............................................................................33 ON THE CENTER LINE Blair Giesken.....................................................................34 FROM MANILLA Blair Giesken...............................................................................41 *LUCIFERASE Blair Giesken.....................................................................................49 HANDWRITING Noah Essenmacher.....................................................................53 ABNORMAL ABNORMALITIES AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF MEANING Robert Darabos.................................................................................55 I FOUND MY INNER CHILD ON A MILK CARTON BECAUSE OF James M. Zimmer II..................................................................................................................58 BIOGRAPHIES...............................................................................................................61 BENEFACTORS.............................................................................................................65 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................................66 *Congratulations to the winners in their respective categories. **Congratulations to the winner of the Fall 2007 Cardinal Sins Slamoramaglamaramajama EDITOR’SEDITOR’S NOTENOTE I’ve labored over what to write in my fi nal editor’s note. How, in one small page, do I sum up three semesters of hard work? What can I say that hasn’t already been said? What grand statement can I make about art? While I’d like to make this fi nal note as pretentious and self- congratulatory as possible, Cardinal Sins is, in fact, not about me. It’s about giving those artists with something to say a place to say it, through the publication itself or at our events. We’ve featured a wide range of art from a diverse mix of artists: writers, painters, slam poets, graphic designers, and rock musicians, just to name a few. Cardinal Sins is an outlet for creative ambition and it only exists because of the thriving creative community at SVSU. As editor of Cardinal Sins, I feel lucky to have been a part of that community and able to experience fi rsthand the talent and enthusiasm around campus. I’m incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to contribute. So that’s it. No grand statements or congratulations—just gratitude, and recognition that... “Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”–Robert Motherwell Christi Griffi s 6 CARDINAL SINS COSMONAUTCOSMONAUT BLUES BLUES by Tom Wheatley Channel 86…static. Channel 87…static. Channel 88…static. Bonoir bowed his head in a wordless prayer, a formless sense of spirit reaching into the aether, mysterious and ineff able as in a dream. He opened his eyes and switched off the radio. In the darkness, lights on the instrument panel fl ashed orange amid fat buttons and analog knobs set beside a plasma display screen—images of iconic old clashing with new. The air scrubbers had stopped working a while ago, and each breath Bonoir took in had more carbon dioxide in it than the last. Already his ability to think was faltering, the singularity of his mind now like a tuning fork, the vibrations of cognizance waxing and waning to the rhythm of his pulse. His pattern of thought was jilted and intermittent, a music disc that somehow played though it was scratched to hell, or a movie with a thousand frames and a dozen scenes removed, edited for time. It was a simple station transfer from Lunar Orbital 3 to Lunar Orbital 7. Each station had a diff erent orbit, and at the time of the transfer it chanced that the quickest way was around the dark side of the moon. “Nuthin’ to worry about,” Captain Haber had said. He was fat, an overconfi dent NASA Yank. “Swing ‘round and pop out the other side. You’ll be outta contact for a bit. No big deal.” In his mind, Bonoir heard Gregory scream with panicked, primitive terror. The void brings things into focus, into clarity, and it is a dark epiphany. Tumbling without end, Gregory

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