{"id":35685,"date":"2008-03-01T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=35685"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:52:19","slug":"willow-springs-61-spring-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/willow-springs-61-spring-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Springs 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-20480d7d\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-0e913d0d\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-678e88ff\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-a110a6a5\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a110a6a5\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-91f67aad gb-headline-text\">Willow Springs 61<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-07a4c41c gb-headline-text\">Spring 2008<\/h2>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-726d3561\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-d4c309d1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-01d77f0e\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-cc64d6f0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-cc64d6f0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-c4cd79db gb-headline-text\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-05ea7638\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f1427648 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>DENVER BUTSON<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7749e1bc gb-headline-text\">[I dreamt I drove up]<br>[the waiters are all old and tired]<br>Passive Aggressive<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-346472a1\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-57b456a5 gb-headline-text\"><strong>KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-c99f9c01 gb-headline-text\">Mosquito Truck<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-707ba059\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a25601ff gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>JIM DANIELS<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-9b4270bd gb-headline-text\">Hey<br>Mega Everything<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-77a67804\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-de547520 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>ARDEN ELI HILL<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7119d1b1 gb-headline-text\">Incidents on The Immaculate<br>Uncle\u2019s House<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-eb0a71ca\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-45657e2d gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>KEETJE KUIPERS<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-73bea60b gb-headline-text\">4th of July<br>Oregon Spring<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f008db4d\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-4a045a48 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>LISA PIERCE<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-52dc1a35 gb-headline-text\">How I Learned Spanish<br>Dispatch from Simultaneous Swim Lessons<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b52b5965\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-910b3bf5 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>RAY AMOROSI<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-bba7d118 gb-headline-text\">In Praise of Tomatoes<br>In Praise of My Nose<br>In Praise of You<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-69a804b5\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-86f3e7a4 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>ERICA MCLNINCH<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-489b16fe gb-headline-text\">Backgammon with a Wolf at the Window<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5388b16\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-39807529 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>PAUL 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class=\"gb-container gb-container-4a296ce1\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-bc94b9da gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>MOLLY FISK<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d03ec14c gb-headline-text\">Double Solitaire<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-21509713\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-950c9456 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>JOHN HODGEN<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4a4281a gb-headline-text\">Upon Reading that Tatiana Yakovleva, Mayakovsky\u2019s Lover Separated from Him by the Stalin Purges,&nbsp;Had Married and Was Four Months Pregnant when Mayakovsky Killed Himself<br>Upon Reading a Poem Entitled \u201cUpon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me at the Intersection&nbsp;of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive\u201d<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-30da5a7b\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b45a7283 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