Spectrum: Northeastern University's Literary Arts Magazine: 2013-2014 Calendar

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2013 - 2014 CALENDAR

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Just another one for you, darling AMY HOOD

arms of the maples on winter afternoons. and you told me if you don’t.

and altogether too warm for November.

I don’t even have enough love

and wires for a heart.

MANMADE YJ LEE

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Labor Day

First Day of Fall Classes

There is a mouse

GOOD INTENTIONS ALEXA MASI

and while you wouldn’t want to appear so enthusiastic about

and allow the little raindrop scurry chewed out from cereal boxes to go unpunished.

But could it be that something so small for a grown man to catch? when I feel the most compelled

EVERYTHING HAS COME TO AN END

you are doing your best.

JOHN HUBBARD

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Columbus Day No Classes

CRIMSON YJ LEE WRITTEN AFTER STARING INTO THE FACE OF BETRAYAL JOSE ROMAN

The deepness of the woods instills a fear

It lives in alabaster woods of birch When dealing with Old Mother Nature’s trees Be watchful of each leaf and every breeze.

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Veterans’ Day No Classes

DINGHY

FRANK CARDEW two thieves on a yacht. gun –

strength to the legs down thin streets and up stones and up steps and a balcony and a cigarette.

Porch Lit by door

BENJAMIN LANDSBERG

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Last Day of Fall Classes

Reading Day

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STARLIT REVERIE

MICHELLE NGUYEN as if though luminous pentagons could render ideas as law Elliptical pathways of masses roaming galaxies distant— hushed by the mute prayer of a child clasped to the window

LIZARD

ASHLYN WIEBALCK

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First Day of Spring Classes

Martin Luther King

Agringadas

JENNIFER KRONMILLER i would watch my tongue in the mirror curl upwards in prayer so that i could say your name i learned about Raúl Valdés and casabe bread when we greeted i embraced you second person plural you all embraced until the years turned stale.

and an accent you learned from Jersey Shore so different than my childhood imitations.

WAYFARER IN UMBRA

BENJAMIN LANDSBERG

and this isn’t even abandonment or acculturation We were always the same shade.

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Presidents’ Day No Classes

CHOCOLATE MAN JENNY ELKIN

Cardboard tied with old shoelaces around his chest Impenetrable armor.

Hands cupped around his mouth to add volume As if that will help against the roar of urban life. time long gone.

way Grimacing and holding their purses close Cascades of obscenities following Leaving ample Space between a stampede of sanity And the chocolate man in the bowler hat Cupping his hands and calling for Jesus

CHINATOWN ASHLYN WIEBALCK

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Strong WILLED, WEAK HANDS AYLISH O’SULLIVAN

My Father’s hands are chapped Smelling of cloves and motor oil.

The metallic aluminum smell wafting from outside Drawing my attention to From him.

My grandfather’s hands are chapped Smelling of coconut sap and bamboo.

The sound of the myna birds drifting in from outside Matches the steady strums as he plays those strings for me.

Now concerning.

As his memory slips away From him.

Sometimes repeatedly.

GOSSAMER

Or tear apart Because all they do is tremble

LINDA CHEN

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I JUST CAN’t imagine ALEXA MASI

It must be strange to see the bird from the branch. not so high at all.

And so maybe it is strange to have the word drawn from my chest. to be written in slowly rusting red.

INTO TOWN

ASHLYN WIEBALCK

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First Day of Summer Classes

Memorial Day No Classes

COVER THE LIGHT BILL SHANER

It’s beating down on me while a dam in my mind the riverbed dries.

rain will restore the natural order. at the alter of the sun I am sure of it.

BALLOON LENA KING

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INSHALLAH

CHRISTINA BIVONA

TOPOGRAPhY YJ LEE

I hated seventh grade geography And I still hate memorizing the longitudes

But ever since I’ve been on this new conquest

Lines diverge and converge beneath an

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EGYPTIAN DOLLS

CHANTALLE HANNA My little wooden couple at Khan al Halili My stoic lady a column dressed in blue

that litter the zebbulline their walls reverberating with life the smile painted on your face.

My little wooden man your wife so much taller than you

composed mainly of minarets soaring

two sides to one city’s story my mismatched couple coexisting incongruous in my bedroom and opposite the acute angle

DANCING WITH CAMELS CHRISTINA BIVONA

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Final Exams for

Final Exams for

Vacation Begins

Last Day of Full Summer Classes

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