CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
Volume 23 Number 3
Winter 2006
Front Cover Art:
“Prayers for Peace, Sayyida Zaynab Shrine, Damascus, Syria” by Betty LaDuke
14” x 11” oil, statement on page 115
Back Cover:
“Betty LaDuke Sketching in the Courtyard of the Grand Omayyad Mosque”
photo, statement on page 115
CONTENTS
Volume 23 Number 1
2006 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize Winner
Patricia Hale 6 Oil on Canvas, Circa 1825
POETRY
Anne McGrath Hochberg 7 Fish Curing, Portmagee, Ireland—Undated Photo
Sarah J. Gardner 8 Excerpts from Growing Up, Darkly, Girl
Carol Steinhagen 10 A Time to Gather
Jeanie French 26 The Change
Tonya Northenor 27 Unfinished Sculpture
Jennifer MacPherson 28 Credo
Suzannah Gilman 29 Physical
Anne Haines 30 Against Metaphor
Judith Tate O’Brien 31 The Old Convent
32 Reading the Bones
Tatyana Mishel 54 Camping
Claire Zoghb 56 Kiss in the Field
57 First Poem for Nicholas
Gillian Cummings 58 Womb
Ysabel de la Rosa 59 Cicadian Rhythm
Cheryl Whitehead 62 Winterträume (Winter Dreams, after Peter Tchaikovsky)
Penelope Scambly Schott 63 The Purpose of Purpose
Maria Ercilla 64 Lotería
Mary Jane Ryals 66 The Wash: Lavendería con sus Manos
Karla Linn Merrifield 68 After the Mammogram
Marie C. Jones 69 One Art
Una Nichols Hynum 53 First Person Plural
Lorena Babcock Moore 81 Canelo hills: Red Flower
Lori Ubell 82 after the accident
Nancy Takacs 85 Wax Ornaments
Ashley Mace Havird 86 The Feast of Snails
Lailah Ford 88 The Fire of Our Living
80 The Stillness in the Center
Joan A. Monheit 90 Aretha Sings “Amazing Grace” at Your Memorial
Sheryl St. Germain 91 Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce: A Recipe for Sorrow
PROSE
Mandy F. Farrington 12 The Other Side of the Line
Candy B.K. Schille 49 Danger Dog and I Are Going In
Candice L. Harper 60 Mai Tais and Sticky Rice
Anna Mitcov 71 Cloud Formations
Janet Albright 94 Silence
ART
Lee Lee 33 Ta Prohm K-IV-11
34 Aspara
35 Queen Jayarajadevi (Transcended)
Willa Schneberg 36 Nuns with Ceremonial Offerings
37 Nun at Home
Betty LaDuke 38 Victoria Exhibition, Aleppo, Syria
39 Sharab, Baghdad Café, Syria
Lynne Burnett 40 Through the Window
41 Called
Kathleen Bryson 42 Come. Here. (The Ovaries of a Siren)
43 Sheela-na-gig
Toni Truesdale 44 Sisters
45 Laughing Seal
D.G. Pipes 46 Even Riding a Painted Pony
47 Mother, May I
Greta Ashworth 48 Tish
NORTHWEST BOOK REVIEWS
Sarah Seybold 104 Black Loam by Maxine Scates
Barbara Drake 106 Pigeons by Lois Rosen
BOOK REVIEWS
Judith H. Montgomery 108 Radiance: Poems by Barbara Crooker
Jeannine Hall Gailey 109 Two and Two by Denise Duhamel
Claire Keyes 111 Blinding the Goldfinches by Michelle Gillett
Elaine Starkman 113 The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems by Zelda, translated from the Hebrew by Marcia Falk
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES
122
Poetry Excerpt
2005 LOIS CRANSTON MEMORIAL
POETRY PRIZE FIRST PLACE WINNER
Oil ON CANVAS, CIRCA 1825
Not easy to be unlovely,
to have a nose that meets the world
like a plow blade
sharp enough to cut through soil heavy
with clay, sturdy enough to shove fist-
sized stones from the furrows;
to know the frills of lace
around your face cannot soften the lines
of your majestic prow.
The irony of your blossom-
shaped bonnet is not lost upon you;
you know you are
no rose. There are no rings
on your fingers, no children dressed
like small adults posing
beside you, their hands
obediently laid against your knee.
What happiness ?
In your hand, a leather-bound book
with gilded pages; in your pocket,
the key to your front door.
PATRICIA HALE
FINAL]UDGE
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(Finalists listed on page 128)
Copyright 2005 by CALYX, Inc., a non-profit corporation. No part of this publication may be copied or reproduced without written permission from CALYX.
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