Metaphor
Metaphor, Weber State University’s interdisciplinary journal, is published
each spring semester, giving voice to the creative community on campus for
twenty-seven years. Metaphor is staffed entirely by WSU students.
Funding for the journal comes primarily from student fees. Metaphor is
distributed free of charge.
Copyright © 2008 by individual authors, artists and composers.
Printed in the United States of America by Weber State University Printing
Services.
Metaphor
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Ogden, UT 84401-1201
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Metaphor accepts submissions in art, poetry, fiction, and academic literature
from students of Weber State University and students who submit to the
National Undergraduate Literature Conference.
Metaphor uses a blind submission process. The author of each piece is un-
known until that piece is chosen for publication.
Cover design by Matt Glass.
Layout and design by Cynthia Loveland and Brittanie Stumpp
Metaphor
VOLUME XXVII · 2008
Contents
Editor’s notes
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
Poetry u
Jenna Jameson/Times
Square, September 2003
2
Adam M. Allred
Diamonds in the Moonlight 3
Elisabeth Anderson
Spirit of the Sea
4
Quiet Reaches
5
Andrew Blodgett
A Preacher in the Traffic
7
Matthew Cranford
Chart the Stars
9
Clueless Navigation
10
everything is supposed 11
to be cool
Tiptoe Stacatto
13
Anica DeHart
Reflections through the
Dust
14
Jennifer Georgi
Before the Subway
15
Kristin March
Earth Drunk
16
Seattle
17
Sleeping Near an Open
Flame: for Aiden
18
Having said what I have
meant to said
19
Misty Moncur
I warned myself about
myself
20
In the Stuff of Disquiet
21
Sarah Mund
The Finisher
22
Rykki Lynn Olson
Sunshine Plans
23
Up in the Air
24
Portland
25
Bonnie Russell
A Summer without Dark
26
Dance of Betrayal
27
Gail G. Schimmelpfennig
Discoveries
28
Samhain Song
29
Mephistopheles
30
Adrian Stumpp
To Steve, My Lover’s
First Lover
31
Nostalgia
33
Brittanie Stumpp
Flotsam and Jetsom
34
Diana Velis
Lament for Darfur
35
NULC u
Mizuko Kuyo
38
Andy Burt
Naïve
40
Kathleen DeSouza
Little City Trees
49
Edie Hitchcock
Partaking of the Eternal: 50
The Ecofeminist Paradigm of Legacy
in Louise Erdrich’s Luna
Visual Arts u
Self-Portrait
56
Emily Wood
Say, Why Are You
Pressing My Hand
57
Amanda Akebrand
The Boat Tree
58
Thalia Parmley
Jugs
59
Andy Chase
Untitled
60
Monica Perez
Bun E
61
Chaise Payan
Self-Portrait
62
Keisha Goeckeritz
Washing Machine
63
Matt Glass
“i am tree”
64
Matt Glass
Untitled
65
Ruth Silver
table
66
Shiela Stellick
Things that have to
be learned
67
Tyler Hackett
Trike Kid Rides Again
68
Zach Thompson
Greedy Tweety
68
Tim Odland
Selections from the
Unfaithful Farmer Wife 69
Kristine McAllister
View Camera Still
Lifes
70
Jamie A. Kyle
The History of the Color
Wheel
71
Evan Carlisle
Medicated
72
Alex Knighton
Academic Literature u
Suppression
76
Lola Duncan
Hemingway’s Prose:
Evolving Themes of Man and Nature
81
Alec Bryan
Stuffed and Preserved:
Development of Ecological
Crisis in “A White Heron”
87
Brittanie Stumpp
Creative Writing u
How to be an auspicious
time traveler
92
Ryan Bowen
The good fishin’
96
Jeremy Brodis
Long Walk
100 Morgan Lane
How to Succeed at
Unemployment
106 Adrian Stumpp
The day Shelby died
113 Anita Wahlstrom
The face of dreams
117
Editor’s notes
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle
with human emotions.
—James Michener
Buried in each story and painting, sleeping under sentences and
snapshots, and tangled with a word or note lies the definition of
humanity. There we find the memory of our fears and uncertainties.
There we catch the odor of hope. And there, well within our grasp,
but often beyond our understanding, we find ourselves. An image, a
phrase, a melody…we are the culmination of those, bound together
by expectation.
This journal is a history of us—the students of Weber State Univer-
sity in 2007. In all our balancing, preparing, and not-sleeping, we’ve
come together to create this beautiful record of our humanity—our
footprint in the shifting crust.
Cynthia Loveland
Acknowledgements
There are always a few who go above and beyond without protest—
those who see a need and fill it—those who anticipate a need and
cover it. Their genuine concern and passion for what they’re doing is
invaluable and uncommon. I’ve been fortunate enough to have some
of these rare ones on my staff this year. For this, I offer them my
undying gratitude.
And to the true superheroes of this collection, my children, the most
patient and unselfish people I know, I can never offer enough. But
I’ll start with lunar eclipses, matinees, sushi, airplanes, religions of
the world…and see where that takes them.
Cynthia Loveland
The best poems communicate beyond the words on a page.
A poem should make use of rhythm, vivid imagery, tone, and
other poetic devices, but it must also do something more. This
something more encourages multiple readings of the poem,
and it invites readers to go a little deeper. Ultimately, they are
exercises in discovery.
We enjoyed reading the submissions to Metaphor this year. The
poems we selected were those that impressed us most. They
were the poems that seemed to do something more.
We appreciate the work that went into each of the submissions
and are pleased to share the following work.
Editor
Rykki Lynn Olson
Staff
Bonnie Russell
Rebecca Samford
Rachael Storey
P
o
etry
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