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Winter 2008
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Bryan Mitschell
Maurice Oliver
Patty Paine
Jayne Pupek
Nic Sebastian
Shawn Sorensen
Lynn Strongin
Christy Tomecek
David Jordan
Richard Rippon
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Christy Tomecek
Winter 2008
The Matter
"In normal chemical reactions, matter cannot be created nor destroyed..."
-Louis P. Pataki, class notes
Mother: I cannot be
created nor destroyed, I
can only be lead from your
liquid womb to the
disturbances of the hands
of boys and their arms that
want to crush me. I still
know how to breathe past it
though & fight &
strike the strings & vibrate,
another transmuted creature
of spilled seed and slick blood,
your gift to the bruising world
Boy: I am not your creation
or destruction. My atoms
claim our union even as
I am called home to
sturdy pillars, an order away
from the rags & scraps of your
love. I wake every morning
in secreted places & I always
offer my paleness to
your engorged desire. We
are linked by train and murmurs
across tables and bed sheets
and yes,
we are completely alive,
a state change or two bringing us
to heat or pressure, the exchange of
energy, the shift not lost to us at all.
| Christy Tomecek is an undergraduate student at New York University. She can often be found scribbling in one of her 17 notebooks in class or writing on tiny pieces of scrap paper at her job at her local B&N. She lives in both Chinatown in her dorm with a bunch of people who keep her awake and in Queens, New York with her family, who begs her to actually go to sleep. |
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