Issue 16: Fall 2022
Dear Friends of eMerge, Here is the Fall 2022 edition of eMerge, our final issue of 2022. Many of us are looking ahead with anticipation of the cold winter...
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Anatomy and Physiology
When I die, I don’twant the cat’s papillaeto tear me apart.I don’t want my fleshto be strippedfrom my bones.I don’t want the maggotsthat gather in Henry’s...
Our Stories
Mark told the story of Fred, how he sank when the light came.Fred told the story of Mary when she continued to sweep up the dead birds at the foot of the...
Wombs
How many molecular functions were swiped up by dust rags from behind the cookie jar, thesis statements spun around mixing bowls with room temperature butter...
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[Signal] Fire
[I am] one of the burning hillside trees.[Fire] jumps from leaves to bark.My arm and torso break. I am [fractured]and still, I love the [Earth] I am...
A Wife Speaks To Her Husband During Visiting Hours at Douglas County Jail
You should be homehelping mestring slate and russet gemsinto our lives’ fortune.We could be on fireslow dancingunder a new moon.Instead, I am here sitting...
Words Rewritten
I once wrote a poem of medievals,their two sleeps, two awakenings.“The first stirring phase came thence in the middlefor the peasant’s night hours did...
My Old Man
My father once told meabout a time before I was bornwhen he was in the Navyand a big war was goingon around the worldand he was sitting in a boothin a bar...
Leo J. Ryan
Murdered on the tarmac.Jonestown, Guyana, South America.He wanted to save those captured by cult leader Jim Jones.The messiah of the Peoples Temple.A San...
Principal Life
If you died tomorrow,God forbid, says my friend,the insurance agent provocateur,if there is a God, it’s his guess as good asmine, forbid that you should die...
What You Left Behind
You didn’t text or callI find instead a short illegible list -Reminders for you? Me? Someone else?I peer at the writing whose form I recognizebut can’t piece...
Solstice Peach
The way the soft skin snapsAnd separates as the knifeRuns through itHow the metal thuds when itReaches the stoneThe crackle of fruit rippingAway from the...
Kindness
Walking down the circular pathto the vaulted room – Radiationtreatment soon.Turning the corner, she looked upsmiling at me. She just finished hertreatment....
How a Mother Should Dress
An earlier version of this piece was published in the memoir Tilted: The Post Brain Surgery Journals (2015).My mom had started wearing her dead mother’s...
Slipped Under Your Door
I don’t know what to dowith the kettle bells of your wordsbecause the curl of your hairjust above your earmakes my fingers itchMy thoughts spin aroundthe...
Rain
Race of many dropsSending in many dopsMany wins, some draws, many lossesQuite severe, filling the air, few pausesGenerous cloud feeds the thirsty...
Maundy Thursday
The girl sat in the middle of the fieldWith the wind whipping her dark hairShe stared straight ahead holding outA handful of dandelionsShe wore a crown of...
Sustenance and Frivolity
The massive crowd cheers as they enter the Great Hall. Aadya, now wearing a rich cerulean gown designed specifically for this moment, is a little unnerved by...
Peach-Ginger Cobbler
What is a cobbler? According to the Oxford Dictionary the word traces back to 1859 and is “a sort of pie, baked in a pot lined with dough of great thickness,...