PaloVerde The Arizona State University West Literary Magazine

Contents

Poetry

Brushwork
by Ryan Brotman
Bristles whispering India ink and fate. . .

Gizmo
by Ryan Brotman
I know you know when I get up. . .

Tuesday Night @ the Drive-In
by Ryan Brotman
. . .the exhaust tastes sweeter living from real to reel

Let Me Say
by Kathleen Crocker
. . .what I mean is never what I say. . .

School Clothes
by Thomas Montgomery
. . .wiping the sweat from his face without disrupting his motion. . .

Southbound
by Thomas Montgomery
Voices of angels, angry, challenging him to rise up from the tracks. . .

Insight
by Kim Toms
iKekule dozed before his fire watching flame snakes writhe.

Manual Labor
by Kim Toms
. . .fine red-haired motors coo for you.

Days Drift By
by Nicole Yackell
Hours and minutes slowly creep toward the west. . .

Séance
by Nicole Yackell
The voices in my veins cannot break through my skin. . .

Fiction

Bread and Fish at 5000 Ft.
by Ryan Brotman
"Don't worry. I packed your chute myself."

Stacy Marlin
by Darin Rogers
"I'm not going back with you guys."

Nonfiction

Be Good
by Colleen Carmean
Although I left the church years ago, I still carry the baggage, like Sisyphus with his rock.

Maria
by Leticia Comparán
Maria. . .was my role model.

Mi Papá
by Leticia Comparán
He gladly did the work to support his wife and nine children.

A Personal Prison
by Kathleen Crocker
For the first time, an Arizona parent would be tried for negligent homicide in a drowning death that carried no unusual extenuating circumstances.

Graphic Arts

Moon Rocks
by Tommy Cannon

Alice's Columbines
by Alice Christie

Lightning over Fletcher Library
by Robert Goodrich

Past Issues

Spring 2001
Spring 2000
Index to On-line Issues

	Welcome to the tenth edition of PaloVerde, Arizona State University West’s magazine of literature and art.
Springtime paloverde blossoms

Paloverde is a production of the Department of American Studies, which invites everyone in the university community—students, faculty, and staff—to contribute creative work. The magazine publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, scripts, and even the occasional research paper. It also seeks contributions of visual art, music, and computer-aided graphics.

Two selection boards, one of student editors and one of faculty and staff, decide which among the many submissions will go into each annual issue of PaloVerde. The student editors in AMS 346/Eng. 394 assist in the magazine’s production. We wish to thank all who are listed here for their combined efforts in bringing this publication to life.

The Department of American Studies encourages writing across the campus through its numerous upper- and lower-division courses in writing and through its Writing Certificate Program, which offers a certification in professional writing. PaloVerde and the campus newspaper, ASU West Express, exist to provide a practicum and showcase for students who enroll in these courses and who contribute to our campus’s intellectual life. With this issue, we express our appreciation for and joy in the students who make our programs and our university possible.

—Victoria Hay
Department of American Studies

PaloVerde
The ASU West Magazine of Literature and Art

2002 Editorial Staff

Joy Barnes
Ryan Brotman
Victor Graeber
Kara Opel
Darin Rogers
Nicole Torres
Julie Anne Phillipps

Victoria Hay, Editorial Director

Selection Committee

Gene Burgess
Thomas Cutrer
Kathy Grant
Darryl Hattenhauer
Dennis Isbell
Linda Stryker
Stephen Toth

Arizona State University West
Department of American Studies
4701 West Thunderbird Road
Glendale, Arizona 85046-4908

ISSN: 1534-021X

	PaloVerde The Arizona State University West Literary Magazine	May, 2002 Volume 10, Number 1
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