VOLUME 11 The 2018 Human THE JOURNAL OF POETRY, Touch PROSE AND VISUAL ART UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS THE JOURNAL OF Poetry, Prose, & Visual Art University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus FRONT COVER ARTWORK Fugue JULIA MICHIE BRUCKNER BACK COVER ARTWORK Glass Beach JIM WONG GRAPHIC DESIGN Scott Allison [email protected] ScottAllison.org PRINTING Bill Daley Citizen Printing, Fort Collins 970.545.0699 [email protected] This journal and all of its contents with no exceptions are covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. To view a summary of this license, please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/. To review the license in full, please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/legalcode. Fair use and other rights are not affected by this license. To learn more about this and other Creative Commons licenses, please see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses. To honor the creative expression of the journal’s contributors, the unique and deliberate formats of their work have been preserved. © All Authors/Artists Hold Their Own Copyright THE HUMAN TOUCH Volume 11 2018 EDITORS IN CHIEF Michael Berger Diana Ir EDITORIAL BOARD Nicholas Arlas Shayer Chowdhury Anjali Dhurandhar Kirk Fetters Lynne Fox Amanda Glickman Carolyn Ho George Ho Priya Krishnan Meha Semwal Mary Lou Wallace David Weil Helena Winston SUPERVISING EDITOR Therese Jones CONTENTS PREFACE .................................................................................................7 Illness Alice Abrams ....................................................................................8 The Pain Alice Abrams .................................................................................9 Pause Fredrick Abrams ...............................................................................10 Knowing Nina Ball ....................................................................................11 Donum Posthumous Elsa Alaswad. .12 Together in a Vast Wyoming Grasslands Michael Aubrey ..................................14 Together in Wonder Michael Aubrey .............................................................15 Cadaver Lab: A Manual on Humility Dylan Bergstedt .......................................16 Below the Surface Nathaniel Brown ..............................................................17 Holyoke Fair Kevin Bunnell .........................................................................18 Relapse Brenna Cameron ............................................................................20 Lion Gulch Trail David Weil .........................................................................21 I Stand In The Corner Matthew Dillon ...........................................................23 Oblivion Annette House .............................................................................24 The Human Eye Through a Window Into Nature Mark Rush .............................25 Frost Arek Wiktor .....................................................................................26 Water to Live By Michael Regier ..................................................................27 Fall in Gunnison County Charles Whitmore ....................................................28 There Is A Street Between Us Shayer Chowdhury ............................................29 Whole Lotta Love Shayer Chowdhury ............................................................30 Music Therapist Tony Edelblute ....................................................................32 Shark Attack Tony Edelblute ........................................................................34 Just Words Carol Ehrlich. 36 In The End, Beauty Carol Ehrlich ..................................................................37 Tears Carol Ehrlich ....................................................................................38 Morning Dose Paul Eigenberger. 39 The Dancer Jennie Hammett ........................................................................40 Two Rose Poems Jennie Hammett ................................................................43 Man Overboard Steven R. Heaps ..................................................................44 My Irregular Leaky Wonder Steven R. Heaps ..................................................45 Whiny Lifestyle Lament Steven R. Heaps .......................................................46 Buddy, Where’d You Put the Map? J. Norman K.. 47 Colors of Nature Justin Nguyen ...................................................................48 Japanese-Brothers Kaoru Iwanabe ...............................................................49 Milky Went To Heaven Kaoru Iwanabe ..........................................................49 4 | UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS CONTENTS Layers in the Rain Michael Aubrey ................................................................50 Stargazer Matthew Hickey ..........................................................................51 She Loved You Anyway Carolyn Ho .............................................................52 Bill Me Rachael Ruff ..................................................................................56 Journey Annette House ..............................................................................57 A Navy Corpsman but First a Nurse Sue Kammerzell ........................................59 Medicated Joseph Karwin ...........................................................................60 When the Liver and Kidney Give Out Judas Kelley ..........................................61 Hearing From the Far Side Len Wheeler ........................................................62 Healing Priya Krishnan ...............................................................................64 Little Earthquakes Priya Krishnan .................................................................65 Huntin’ with Room 301 Josh Mares. .66 The Moment You Realize You Are Free Sally Peach. .67 Window Shopping in Georgetown Maxwell Li ...............................................68 Touching Death Andi Hudler .......................................................................69 San Juan Guardian Eric Sawyer ....................................................................70 Catapult Rachel Pauley ...............................................................................71 Wamkelekile eKhayelitsha–Welcome to Khayelitsha William Kromka .................72 Numbers Linh Nguyen ...............................................................................74 Three Pond Park Spring Trudi Schmidt ..........................................................75 The Ferris Wheel Eli O’connor .....................................................................76 Amnysthesia Sally Peach ............................................................................78 Running Store Maxwell Li ..........................................................................78 When I Was 20, And This Was Still New, I Turned To You Sally Peach ..................79 Letting Go Michelle Pineda .........................................................................80 Remembering Mary Poole ..........................................................................81 Heaven Melissa Powell ...............................................................................82 Shore Melissa Powell .................................................................................82 Drawing My Legs On The Bed Kaoru Iwanabe ................................................83 Pangea Melissa Powell ...............................................................................84 Molt Howe Qiu ........................................................................................84 Boat Chheng Kuy Ing .................................................................................85 Next Time Meghan Ralph ...........................................................................86 Entrainment Rachel Revelle .........................................................................88 Veterans PTSD Group Murray Sallenbach .......................................................89 To Be Murray Sallenbach .............................................................................90 THE HUMAN TOUCH | 5 CONTENTS An Official Reminder of the Most Important Thing Arian Khorshid .....................91 In Life and In Death Delia Shash ..................................................................92 Sunset at Suppertime Andi Hudler ...............................................................93 Kilpacker Goddess Kathryn Utschinski ..........................................................94 Khmer Village Chheng Kuy Ing ....................................................................95 Pudding Creek Beach Jim Wong .................................................................96 Life Cycles David Shepard ...........................................................................97 Love and Loss are Both Sides Now Nancy Sharp .............................................98 Life and Death George Ho ....................................................................... 101 The Forever Journey Jennifer Smidt ............................................................ 102 Reincarnation Kevin Bunnell ..................................................................... 103 This is Heartbreak Shannon Son ...............................................................