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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

Tag: Poetry

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God’s Mistake

by Allyson Dempsey

“I built / a boy / from clay. / Breathed life / into his body.”

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The Poet’s Bedroom Reimagined

by Daniel Dyal

“Forget cleansing / my room. Burn down the whole / house.”

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Icarus Falling

by Christine Scronce

“Some people say Icarus drowned because he was foolish. / Others because he loved the sun.”

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if one must die it will be me tonight

by Marcus Huffman

“the very nights that make a grown man shake; / i cannot stand these lonely, freezing nights.”

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We Trade Sips

by Ben Long. Second place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest

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August 13, 2022August 13, 2022vandaliamag

Crows

by Doug Van Gundy

“darker / than the startling plunge into night before the evening / has even gotten going, darker than even the morning cinders / of last night’s fire…”

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August 13, 2022August 14, 2022vandaliamag

i lie awake, sleeping

by Brennon Weese. First place in The Vandalia’s 2022 Art & Literature contest

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