Tanvi

nonfiction by Emily Northey

In my travels, I found a wonderful friendship with my Hindi teacher, Bhavani, and her young daughter, Tanvi.  This piece is dedicated to both of them in thanks for the joy and love we have shared.

Words That Are Close

poetry by Melissa Goodrich

plover, seal, pledge, place, stent, flush, flight

a lover is not a bird

near shore, short-tailed

with long

pointed wings

nor the sea

torpedo-shaped

with four

flippers, nor a sealant

a ledge is not something

promised, bound by

promise, the

promise to give

nor lace a room,

region, or part

devoted

to a special purpose

a tent

is not a surgical device

to hold tissue

in place, as inside

a vessel of blood, keeping

the vessel open

to lush is not to glow

or be washed

out sudden with a flow

of water,

or startled

up from cover, said

of birds

nor is light a fleeting

as from

danger, a soaring

above, a set of stairs between

landings

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Melissa Goodrich has been PANKed and Routed.  She's served as the co-editor of The Susquehanna Review and the poetry editor of RiverCraft the past two years.  As a senior, she's started becoming nostalgic, phoning old grade-school English teachers, exhuming retired poems...it has all of it been a pleasure.

Coming next week: nonfiction by Emily Northey

(This is a love poem for Ally.)

poetry by Elizabeth Deanna Morris

Bee Sting
And your tongue of bees stung
me in between and that’s all my clit
is now but a swelling from when you
kamikazied yourself before retreating
further within me to your hive
where you would die and now
I carry you with me, calcium
& amber; when I dip into my honey comb
these days, I lose myself in the buzzing
in the space behind my right ear.


(Ally)
these days
i carry you with me
and now
you retreat
a swelling
and your tongue

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Elizabeth Deanna Morris is soon to be a graduate of Susquehanna University with a Bachelors of the Arts in Creative Writing.  She has been published in Variance, RiverCraft, The Susquehanna Review, and Transformations.  She is the poetry winner of Lazy Eye Press's Fall 2009 Chapbook Contest.  She also finds time to blog about writing.  She loves knitting, spinning, and other domestic activities.  She often dreams her poetry before she writes it.  She isn't sure if this means that she's cheating or working even as she sleeps.

Outrageous Fortune

The fall 2010 issue of Outrageous Fortune—a national online undergraduate literary magazine produced by students at Mary Baldwin College —launched this week, and it’s packed with writing from Susquehanna students!

Half of this issue’s poetry and prose contributions are from writing majors here at Susquehanna University:

“Bumbling Hearts,” a poem by Michelle Bayman
“Untitled,” a poem by Amber Cook
“Cake Top Figurines,” a short story by Audrey T. Carroll
“Forgotten” and “Smother,” two poems by Alex Guarco
“Patterning,” a poem by Elizabeth Deanna Morris
“Rhythm,” a short memoir by Ryan Rickrode
“Plastic Soldiers,” a personal essay by Dan Wilhelm

Next week Logogram will be back on schedule with poetry by Elizabeth Deanna Morris. Until then, enjoy Outrageous Fortune!

Ryan Rickrode, editor