Tributaries: Spring 2010

Abstract

Tributaries is a “collection of artwork. [The pages are filled with] poetry, prose and visual art accumulated from the pens, keyboards and brushes of our local and extended family of artists.” –Patrick Tisdel, Editor-in-Chief (2010). This issue contains the following works of poetry: Pawpaw's Rough Mechanic's Hands by Elsbeth Wofford-Tyler; The Boss-man Took It Away by Robert Frazier; White Picket Fence by Geoffrey Craig; The Station Just West of Northport by Robert Collet Tricaro; If You Ever Wish to Grow by Jose Trejo; Escape by Stephanie Harrell; Nature's Script by Robert Collet Tricaro; The Barn by Stephanie Harrell; Screening Prayers by Robert Collet Tricaro; Modern-Day Granddaughter by Stephanie Harrell; I Go Back to Oklahoma 1974 by Lizzy Gregory; Memory Long Gone by Lauren Harmon; Today Is Not My Day by Rabiul Hasan; Untitiled Haiku by Jerred Jesse; Literature Past by Rebecca Lowery; The Cost of First Dates by Patrick Tisdel; Head to Toe by Cindy Kirkland; Death Pulls Me South by Marsha Mathews; Honeybee by Regis Crowder; Constellations of Blueberries by Elsbeth Wofford-Tyler; All In by Corey Taylor; and I Should Tell You But I Would Not by Rabiul Hasan. It contains the following short stories: Lost in Reality by Lauren Harmon; Clouds by Ashlee Swilling; Frayed by Meredith Edwards; Something Blue by Nancy Mason; and His Ring by Stephanie Harrell. The following visual art works are included: The Fence by Samantha Willis; La Push by Aric Brown; Dedication by Kristen Ray Johnson; The Rejected Bride by Alex Ingle; Granny's Pain by Alex Ingle; Untitled by Jeremy Marchmon; Pure Love by Rigoberto Delgado; Wintertime by Tina Phillips; Sam Elliott by Rigoberto Delgado; Awareness by Rigoberto Delgado; Light off the Train by Samantha Willis.