Windward Review Vol. 20 (2022): Beginnings and Endings
"Beginnings and Endings" (2022) challenged South Texas writers and beyond to narrate structures of beginnings and ends. What results is a collection of poetry, prose, hybrid writing, and photography that haunts, embraces, and consoles all the same. Similar to past WR volumes, this collection defies easy elaboration - it contains diverse tones, languages, colors, and creative spaces. Creative pieces within the text builds upon others, allowing polyvocal narratives to interlock and defy the logic of 'beginning-middle-end'. By the end of this collection, you will neither sense nor crave the finality that a typical text brings. Instead, you will be inspired to learn and create beyond a narrative linear structure. Your reading and support is sincerely appreciated.
"Beginnings and Endings" (2022) challenged South Texas writers and beyond to narrate structures of beginnings and ends. What results is a collection of poetry, prose, hybrid writing, and photography that haunts, embraces, and consoles all the same. Similar to past WR volumes, this collection defies easy elaboration - it contains diverse tones, languages, colors, and creative spaces. Creative pieces within the text builds upon others, allowing polyvocal narratives to interlock and defy the logic of 'beginning-middle-end'. By the end of this collection, you will neither sense nor crave the finality that a typical text brings. Instead, you will be inspired to learn and create beyond a narrative linear structure. Your reading and support is sincerely appreciated.
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Azrael Montoya<br />
Some Poem<br />
Some words mean everything.<br />
Some words mean not a thing.<br />
Words in a poem have a light<br />
like people <strong>and</strong> poets do.<br />
Ms. Plath <strong>and</strong> Mr. Dickenson would tell you this.<br />
<strong>and</strong> even Mr. Poe <strong>and</strong> Mr. Carver would agree.<br />
They all talk about that suffering deep in the heart.<br />
The suffering event breaks human limits.<br />
We have suffering men <strong>and</strong> then women.<br />
Suffering is universal as in a creature’s<br />
code <strong>and</strong> design.<br />
Even the gun suffers without its bullets<br />
The shark suffers with no ocean to think about.<br />
The lord of the poem is the pen.<br />
The pen creates <strong>and</strong> sustains hope.<br />
Those words put the person in a different town<br />
away from trouble.<br />
Just sit down <strong>and</strong> have a gr<strong>and</strong> old time.<br />
Read a poem <strong>and</strong> maybe you’ll get your love back.<br />
Dinosaurs<br />
(A Fragment)<br />
First came dinosaurs in the lost l<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Then came human beings.<br />
And trust me, both designs were complicated.<br />
165 <strong>Windward</strong> <strong>Review</strong> <strong>Vol</strong>ume <strong>20</strong>
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