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Vandalia Arts Journal

Vandalia Arts Journal

Appalachian Voices, published by students at West Virginia Wesleyan College

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  • Issue 1: Summer 2021

Category: Poetry

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The Great Exalted Orange One by Professor Mark DeFoe

“Bozo the Clown and Alfred E. Newman, / a preening buffoon, he hides in his hairdo.”

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Introductions by Jessica Mongold

“Telling people what I do for a living / Is volunteering to feel a lump in my throat.”

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Honeysuckle Days by Caitlin Ware

“Pick them before they’re gone,” she says / “They’ll only last a few days.”

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Three Poems by Taylor Risinger

“A Walk in the City,” “as clean as possible,” “Spare Change”

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Limits by Jessica Parker

“The human body has quantitative limits—

Lack of oxygen: 11 minutes
Dehydration: 7 days
Starvation: 30 days

What were my limits with you?”

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Hymn for the EA by Savannah Payne

“Four flights up to the thick third-floor heat, hazy / images, and the thought-coating, strange- / sweet smell of Old. It is a place for me / to lay down my burden and worship.”

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Two Poems by Kellie Kovar

“Quickening” and “Spring Chicken”

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