A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University JULIE MILTENBERGER UNTITLED MIDWESTERN REVIEW May 1990 Volume III, Issue 3 FEATURES CREATIVE WRITING WHAT MATTERS 10 Two POEMS 13 by Wayne Glausser by Brian Getz DON'T BLINK 18 POMEGRANATE 14 by Brad Hartman by Astrid Fingerhut BOOK REVIEW 22 Two (MORE) POEMS 21 by Thomas Emery by Ted O'Connell Two POEMS 24 by Mark Burdge DEPARTMENTS NIGHT 25 by Mike Tompkins INSIDE VIEW 4 PROBLEMS WITH TIME AND by T. S. Caw SPACE 26 WORLD VIEW 8 by Dave Martin by Philip Hellmich FOR MRS. TILL. 28 by Seana Murphy Two POEMS 29 by Polly Harrold YEARS OF GLEANING 30 by T. S. Caw ART UNTITLED(Marker) Cover FISH 20 by Elizabeth Simeri UNTITLED 2 UNTITLED 28 by Julie Miltenberger SELF PORTRAIT 3 by Sergi Bosch UNTITLED 4 UNTITLED 27 by Carrie Larson UNTITLED 11 SERGI BOSCH SELF PORTRAIT PENCIL by Stacy Remmy INDIVIDUALLY 15 MIDWESTERN REVIEW is published four times a by Eric Kindler year at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana UNTITLED 30 46135. The students on staff are solely responsible for by Jeff Kent the content of the magazine, although any individual opinions expressed are those of the individual writer. The magazine is printed at Greencastle Offset. INSIDE VIEW Nocturnal Me by T. S. Caw await the next time the laundry needs had better get my money's worth, and done. I have seen this. what better way than to constantly stay Sleep. Who needs it? I think Yes indeed, I glance back awake? I've reached the point in my life where through my journals to November 13, Granted, I do get some sleep, I'm having so much fun being awake 1989, and at 5:10 A.M. that day, in the and it's not always in the Media that the idea of climbing up into my loft midst of churning out a paper on James Classroom during films, but I seriously scares me into believing that I'm going Joyce's water imagery in A Portrait of enjoy staying up all night. There's a to miss something when I enter the Artist as a Young Man, I wrote these unique serenity in the hours between dreamland. How can I afford to be lines: The moon, a perfect white hole in 12:00 and 6:00 A.M. that allows me to unconscious when there are the blackness out my window. If the separate myself from all of the hassles experiences to be had? earth was tilted on its side we would all of my daily life and the incessant white I know the sane and rational spill through to pure whiteness and noise that clouds my thinking. By no person would tell me that everyone nothingness. It's what awaits us on the means am I alone in this belief either. needs to sleep, that our bodies require other side, I'm sure. Many Buddhist monks renounce sleep down time to refuel for all those sunlit One thing I know for sure is altogether and find themselves more waking hours so we can function to the that at the end of that week when I revitalized by deep meditation in best of our abilities both physically and arrived home for Thanksgiving Break I worshipful postures. My posture may mentally. This be lacking approach doesn't somewhat, but I work with me. can feel the Personally, I'm positive benefits more into the moon of hours of inward than the sun, and reflection in quiet not only because solitude. it's just floating out This is there in space not not to say that I causing any skin don't also get a cancer or ozone kick out of depletion, but mingling with the because its living dead, my patterns make fellow comrades people go crazy of the night who and it's much inhabit the few easier to stare at for CARRIE LARSON UNTITLED CHARCOAL Open 24 Hours a long periods of Day businesses time. collapsed fully clothed and face down here in Greencastle. There's the one As a matter of fact, after many on top of the covers on my bed and slept checkout cashier at Kroger who keeps successive sleepless nights of staring at 14 hours straight. Needless to say, this the lane by the school supplies open and the moon-especially when it's full-it is caused my parents some distress and no goes home to bed at 6:30 A.M. and the possible to feel as if our galaxy has been doubt fueled their imaginations as to Shell station people who once sold me a inverted, like the earth and the milky what it is exactly that I do here at black Harley-Davidson bandana for way are that one mateless sock in the college. They can rest assured that I'm under two dollars. The Clark station, universal dryer that God removes, not sleeping. I figure for all the money where I met my buddy Dean Simmons, reaches down into and turns inside out in tuition and room and board they're used to stay open all night doing most of before sticking it back in the drawer to spending to provide for my education I their business in cigarette sales, but 4 MAY 1990 after a carefully conducted survey of 12 thanks for all that I have been blessed MIDWESTERN to 6 business during this past Winter with. Term, while nearly the whole campus What I'm giving thanks for REVIEW was elsewhere, the ownership decided mostly right now though is that one to turn off the lights at midnight from more issue of Midwestern Review is now on. Possibly my favorite nocturnal done. This is my last issue, as is the case people are the Hardee's workers. In my for much of the current staff, and we've four years here they've kept the law thrown together a tight little package Editor-in-Chief enforcement community fed and awake for you that starts right here and Tom S. CAW and in the process sprouted high-tech culminates in the long overdue Poetry headsets that allow for optimum inter- Feast. There has been a dramatic restaurant communications. Another increase in the number of composition advance they've made is in their majors here lately, and while a certain Director of Operations heightened awareness of Hardee's' percentage of them are confused GAYLE GORVETT origins and national geographical individuals who somehow have fooled significance, thanks to the information themselves by thinking writing is easy, campaign that Chip Dalby and I have there are definitely those who possess a waged ever since his parents moved deep passion for words and the power Creative Writing Editor two years ago to Rocky Mount, North held within their combinations. In POLLY HARROLD Carolina, the site of Hardee's defense of my major, I quote Thomas Headquarters and the very first Mann: "A writer is somebody for Hardee's. whom writing is more difficult than it is Taking periodic breaks in the for other people." So in praise of those Features Editor hours before dawn to go visit these who have struggled with the muse and DAVE MARTIN people becomes essential to remind me continue to do so, we offer this creative of my humanness and to help me from writing-heavy issue. prematurely falling through that big It seems that I have managed Departments Editor hole in the sky. It also doesn't hurt to to stray from my original topic, as I so pick up some coffee on occasion, either. often do. I see this as definite LEAH KNIGHT Another great thing about not foreshadowing of my future return to sleeping is that I always get to greet the academia(and my subsequent day before anyone else. For example, success)in the form of a professor. I Art Department while I'm writing this the sun is just figure the only other thing I need to do KAREN BUTLER beginning to shade the night sky a deep to prepare myself for this life, besides blue and the birds in the tree outside spending a couple of more years CHIP DALBY have taken this as their cue to get in tune entrenched in outrageously expensive MAURA SHEA for the performance of the day. Some schooling of course, is to listen to wiseguy crow is out there mocking me, National Public Radio on a more Advertising Managers but that's all right because any minute regular basis and I'll be fine. I imagine NEDRA MCKINNEY now I'll go downstairs and out on the it will be difficult for me to conform to front porch to retrieve the Indianapolis the go-to-bed-and-get-up-early pattern JON BOSLER Star and be the first to peruse it in hopes of the working world, but a little of finding anything worthwhile to read, discipline will do me good. Besides, Business Manager and I'll take in that cool first breath that somewhere down the line I'm sure I'll llusry Mum will be all mine and so fresh that I'll find that Creative Writing position that forget about the fact that I haven't will once again facilitate my sleepless showered in days or that my teeth need ways. MwR Editoral Advisers brushing to remove the mysterious film TOM CHIARELLA and that I have more work to do and BARBARA BEAN dreams to fulfill than could possibly be SAM ABEL squeezed into the numbered squares on ROBERT KINGSLEY my calendar.