Oakwood 2022

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Call to Arms Caitlin Irish Two girls sit in a darkened dorm room, words loaded on the tips of their tongues, wanting to pull the triggers. They hesitate a moment, not knowing what the guns are loaded with, not knowing if there will be kickback. The bullets fire from the barrels of their mouths, hitting one another dead on. Relief and understanding take the place of bloodshed, and they let out sighs of repose. They share a nod between themselves, as they see they are one in the same. Tears of joy falling, they reload their guns. They do not turn the safety back on.


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15min
pages 121-125

What is Foolish, What is Weak — Theodore Wheeler

12min
pages 117-120

After Taking the Wrong I-480 Out of Omaha — Joe Benevento

1min
page 116

After Seeing My Son Dance a Tarentella in Fairfield, Iowa — Joe Benevento

1min
page 115

The Moon Sees Me — Lysbeth Em Benkert

1min
page 113

Cliff Senior; Myron — Cliff Taylor

2min
page 109

Threading a Needle — Lysbeth Em Benkert

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page 114

Three Hoots, Nothing More; Two Years Later— Cliff Taylor

1min
page 110

Shoveling — Nathaniel Lee Hansen

18min
pages 101-107

Call to Arms — Caitlin Irish

0
page 100

Butcherbird — Courtney Huse Wika

0
page 86

Mental Health — Lin Marshall Brummels

0
page 99

Love in the Time of Caldera — Todd Williams

1min
pages 91-92

One-Act Plays — Nick Bertelson

0
page 98

Homecoming Parade — Todd Williams

0
page 94

Son Can You Play Me a Memory? — Jim Reese

7min
pages 95-97

Butchering Day — Jeffrey Wald

7min
pages 87-89

Last Night in Rapid City — Todd Williams

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page 93

The Museum of Roadside Trash — Courtney Huse Wika

1min
page 85

Homecoming — Courtney Huse Wika

1min
pages 83-84

Deus ex Machina — Erika Saunders

1min
page 76

Watercolors — Jeanne Emmons

2min
pages 77-82

Cloud Shadow — Brandon Krieg

1min
page 75

The Flight of Fight Effect — Haley Wilson

24min
pages 65-72

The Moon Keeps Her Secrets — Twyla M. Hansen

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page 62

Farm Dog— Twyla M. Hansen

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page 63

Full Lunar Eclipse, Late September — Twyla M. Hansen

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page 61

Homecoming — Amber Jensen

10min
pages 57-60

Pasque Flower in Repitition — Lane Henson

0
page 55

The state flower of Hell — Robert Tremmel

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page 56

Gift of Goat — Adam Luebke

14min
pages 44-48

Brain — J.D. Schraffenberger

1min
page 43

Piano — J.D. Schraffenberger

1min
page 42

Roadkill — J.D. Schraffenberger

1min
page 41

Lingo — J.D. Schraffenberger

1min
page 40

Separate Lives — Lawrence F. Farrar

19min
pages 31-37

Money — J.D. Schraffenberger

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page 39

Origins; It’s the dirt; The writer’s dog — Marcella Prokop

1min
page 30

Heading Home — William Cass

6min
pages 25-27

Lot — Brina Sturm

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page 24

2:22 AM Cedar Rapids — Susan McMillan

1min
page 28

Consider the Asymptote — Hunter Tebben

0
page 23

Publisher’s Note — Steven Wingate

4min
pages 7-9

Excerpt from Out of Loneliness — Mary Woster Haug

4min
pages 11-12

Blades of Grass — S.D. Bassett

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page 21

Rant Poem — S.D. Bassett

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page 22

The Iceberg — Jodi Andrews

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page 19

What Metaphors — Jodi Andrews

1min
page 20

Tumbleweeds — Ted Kooser

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page 10

Interview with Mary Woster Haug —Amber Jensen

17min
pages 13-18
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