Issue #11
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Notes                                                                                                                                                                                              Editor’s
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Poetry
Jennifer Merri Parker: The Music Lesson, Resentful of Necessity, St. Alphonsus on a Weekday Noon
Brett Foster: Late at Night When I Consider You Sleeping
John Savoie: Willow
Lauren Schmidt: The Unseasoned Earth
Richard Osler: Easter
Kory Wells: Christian Education
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson: Shades of Gray
John Dreyer: Goose Summer
Katherine E. Schneider: Lantern
Mary Marie Dixon: Gone Broody
 
Fiction
Susan Woodring: The Smallest of These
Anna Maria Johnson: Charlie’s Arm
Steve West: Under a Cheerwine Moon
Lydia Melby: And We Were Gone
 
Art
Brett Carter: Projection 6, Projection 5, Projection 2, Projection 1
Dan McGregor: Bloodwheel, Exit Strategy (Rapture Engine 1), Exit Strategy (Rapture Engine 2), Mendicant Resurrection Engine
 
Editor's Note PDF Print E-mail
My husband and I are helping our five-year-old son learn to read. We try; we really do. Night after night and sometimes, I admit, mornings before Dad takes him to school, we sit at the kitchen table attempting with superhuman patience to teach him to read. Sentences like “I like apples. They are red.” Books called Bill Goes to School or Hot Dog. He is distracted and visibly frustrated page one into the book. Often feigning illness and even claiming his brain has stopped working, he now looks upon our much-loved reading time with disdain. 
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Artist's Note PDF Print E-mail

Dan McGregor: Sacramental Engines

My recent work consists of what I call “sacramental engines”—painted mechanical contraptions that are intended to represent invisible spiritual forces. Resurrection has been a big theme for me of late. 

Bloodwheel taps into ancient traditions dealing with the legend of martyrs Erasmus and Catherine of Alexandria, as the torments of both involved wheels—Catherine being assailed by a spiked wheel and Erasmus having his intestines wrapped around a ship’s windlass. Exploring the Tertullian quote that “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” I decided to combine this concept of wheel as torture instrument with the generally positive and motive concept of a waterwheel.

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Short Story Prize Results PDF Print E-mail
RUMINATE’S 2009 SHORT STORY PRIZE

Judged by award-winning author Bret Lott.
Sponsored by Carly & Jesse Ritorto and the Friends of RUMINATE.

Prize Winner:
The Smallest of These by Susan Woodring


Prize Runner-Up:
Charlie’s Arm by Anna Maria Johnson
 
Queen Anne's Lace PDF Print E-mail
By Wally Swist
Every summer a specific species
            of wildflower has its season, grows in abandon
                        to spread across the landscape, fills the meadows


from Mount Pollux to the highway’s median strip,
            basks in the cracks of broken pavement buckling
                        along Farmington Avenue in the restaurant district

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Lantern PDF Print E-mail

By Katherine E. Schneider

Suddenly all I see
is the lantern in my hand;
assaulted by rain,
its flame alive.

Midnight came fast,
and darkness edged in
between the trees,
across the leaf-layered ground,

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