The Under Review - Issue 4 | Summer 2021

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6LETTER FROM THE EDITORSMuscle MemoryWhile we mere mortals emerge from our COVID caves for second doses of a scientific serum and all itspromise, athletes around us are on the pitch, taking on normalcy, one small victory at a time. They areplaying again. We are watching again. But we too are leaving the couch, the treadmills, and the Pelotonsfor the streets, maybe even rejoining our lawn bowling leagues (right, Terry?), and resuming...well,summer. All of the markers are back; playoffs for the winter sports seem firmly and fully formed. Summer harbingers like the Kentucky Derby, the Masters, the Indy 500, all went off. MLS, NWSL, MLB,and the WNBA are underway. Even the Olympics seem determined to prevail.That determination, persistence, and recall is ever present in the work of Issue 4. With uncannyconsistency, the stories, essays, and poems show our bodies in motion and at play again. There iscompetition with others, not just with self. We are the active participants again, not just the hazy lens ofmemory or the gaze of spectator. We are the living. We breathe. We work. We write. If we’re lucky, we repeat.THE UNDER REVIEW
7A Fable About StreaksALEX WELLS SHAPIRODuring the hotter half of the year whenhealthy enough to play, we watch AaronJudge’s truck axel arms dwarf and levera bat, proportions stark enough to distinguishperipherally from the kitchen whileI smoke and burn rice hand fanning fumesin belabored flaps at the window todistinguish among the pinstripes thru mom’ssight clouding in and out her nervessnapping in the quake of a truckdriver sleep fallen mid route swerving intoour passenger side door and spinning us offthe interstate smacking into a snowbank packed dense like drying concrete todistinguish on a shoddy hospitaldesktop monitor tv thru staticbleeding onto walls gowns curtains beddingthe sterile white and metal my sunken paleISSUE 4 | SUMMER 2021
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Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTSPOETRYA Fable Abou
Page 8 and 9: 8 SHAPIROdad’s jaundice complexio
Page 10 and 11: 10adjust to new requirements. More
Page 12 and 13: 12Learning to DunkCHRIS ABBATEI gua
Page 14 and 15: 14Take OneERIN HILLA spindly-legged
Page 16 and 17: 16even if it didn’t square with t
Page 18 and 19: 18Church SoftballRYAN HARPERThose n
Page 20 and 21: 20Eye of the StormBRETT BIEBELThis
Page 22 and 23: 22A Real HumdingerKEITH BUZZARD “
Page 24 and 25: 24“Not sure how good an idea that
Page 26 and 27: 26 BUZZARD“Well, Paul, I don’t
Page 28 and 29: 28DavidANDREW GENTMichelangelo’s
Page 30 and 31: 30Bring on the boos, Ryan thought a
Page 32 and 33: 32“Christ, next time we gotta mak
Page 34 and 35: 34“Actually, it’s more like one
Page 36 and 37: 36 ERWINThe umpire started back for
Page 38 and 39: 38My serve. I was pretty good at it
Page 40 and 41: 40I remembered this incident just b
Page 42 and 43: 42At Logan Avenue, I turned left, h
Page 44 and 45: 44 BELDENMy mother glanced over and
Page 46 and 47: 46 ELPHICKbeen in a real fight in a
Page 48 and 49: 48Interview with Maya WashingtonTER
Page 50 and 51: 50TH: You mention in the beginning
Page 52 and 53: 52performance poet, who is performi
Page 54 and 55: 54known stories in college football
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56Racing DadKIMBERLY J. BROWNI tell
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58 TAYLORDetroit Tigers World Serie
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60When I was planning my trip, I br
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62The RunnerMORROW DOWDLESleep’s
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64Bonus DaysAMY ZARANEKIn basketbal
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66Book ReviewJALEN EUTSEYBe Holding
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68looking down at us,watching,as Do
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70 CONTRIBUTOR NOTESCONTRIBUTOR NOT
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72 CONTRIBUTOR NOTESALEX WELLS SHAP
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