{"id":35892,"date":"1986-01-01T10:28:00","date_gmt":"1986-01-01T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=35892"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:57:01","slug":"willow-springs-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/willow-springs-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Springs 17"},"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 17<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-07a4c41c gb-headline-text\">Winter 1986<\/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-edb4aa8c gb-headline-text\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-2fa7a058\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-0d27afdd gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>LEON CHIDESTER<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6f752ebd gb-headline-text\">Most Things Break<br>And You\u2019ll Break Your Mother\u2019s Back&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Son<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-116bec0f\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-79381769 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong>ROBERT COOPERMAN<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-620885a0 gb-headline-text\">From the Ballad of \u201cThe Twa Corbies\u201d&nbsp;<br>Sir Patrick Spens<br>The Witches of Salem<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-069cb365\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-3b931e11 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>BREWSTER GHISELIN<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a9cc6976 gb-headline-text\">Leone Traverso (Italian)<br>Leone Traverso (English)&nbsp;<br>Llewelyn Powys&nbsp;<br>A Celebration<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f3409c05\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-c3d9a40e gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>ROBERT GIBB<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d426bd2f gb-headline-text\">Among the Successions&nbsp;<br>Listening to the Ballgame<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-071aaaa4\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d3ec3270 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong>BOGOMIL GJUZEL<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-30673bf7 gb-headline-text\">When I Came Back<br>On the Way Back<br>Prostitution<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b77e108d\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-9812fb19 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>FLORENCE GREATHOUSE<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-51ef6449 gb-headline-text\">Forgetting&nbsp;<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-6dd4c6ef\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f7a9ff33 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>PAMELA GROSS<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8e72c535 gb-headline-text\">The Cache<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0751d11\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-13578d05 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>ALLEN HOEY<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-db1052f8 gb-headline-text\">Hymns to a Tree&nbsp;<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b8dda2a5\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8446d3a2 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>SIBYL JAMES<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-c476ea59 gb-headline-text\">A Well in Chad<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-6db6d5bc\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-255a5d1c gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>RICHARD JONES<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-5a1ba41d gb-headline-text\">The Idle Fleet, James River, Virginia<br>The Wounded One<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f588527d\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d13b598c gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>KONSTANTINOS LARDAS<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-225a4275 gb-headline-text\">Gloria<br>Adelphic<br>Marvels<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b45a3fc9\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-0b2546da gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>DAVID LEE<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a4b23a14 gb-headline-text\">Alpine Pond, Cedar Breaks<br>South Gorge, Moab&nbsp;<br>Kaiparowits Plateau<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-6810d27b\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline 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WELCH<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-bf471908 gb-headline-text\">Borges&nbsp; Three Small Letters to the Coast<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-842c3f96\">\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-64a5cd7d gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>CAROLYNE WRIGHT<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-fb353c47 gb-headline-text\">Eulene Stays the Course<br>Eulene Enters the Me Generation<br>Return to Sender?<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-3b8ab3d5 gb-headline-text\">Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-cfac49ba\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8f6e93cd gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>GREGORY NAMEE<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-62c063e9 gb-headline-text\">Renardin<\/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><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>DAVID SIMS<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7189a0bf gb-headline-text\">Stickman<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84dd5c8c\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-443df410 gb-headline-text\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>SUSAN WHEELER<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-2ad4c271 gb-headline-text\">Grieving<\/h6>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-496a3297\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-496a3297\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/issue17.jpg\" alt=\"Willow Springs 17\" class=\"wp-image-992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/issue17.jpg 220w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2021\/09\/issue17-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><em>Willow Springs<\/em>&nbsp;17 features poetry, prose, and translation by Robert Gibb, David Lee, Don Welch, David Sims, 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