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Excerpt from In Will's Room 
by Mary Grimm 
The Journal - Spring 1998 

        A month ago, Will was sleeping in his room with his girlfriend, their faces close to the floor on the thinness of a single matress, hands trailing over the edge, fingers dipping to the coldness of the bare floor. It was night, she crept up through the darkness of the house for him and while his parents slept, cocooned in the new addition, they sighed and touched in this  attic room. Will's animals, the elk, the bear, the eagle and the fox, looked down from the slanting ceiling, crouched in their leafy squares, their edges ruffled by the layers of warm air that live under the roof, always softening, always cooling, always descending. Before they slept, Will explained to her each book, each coverlet, the ancient camera, the handful of brown clay that holds the touch of his seven-year old fingers, hardened now, the edges chipped. In a soft voice, he named them for her and set them aside. 
 

   
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LEE K. ABBOTT 
DAVID CITINO 
KATHY FAGAN 
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BILL ROORBACH 
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CWP Selections:  

Three Poems 
Debbie Abramson 

Still Life with Love Poem 
Lesley Jenike 

Mastering the Art
of French Cooking
 
E.J. Levy 

Theory of Dramatic Action 
E.J. Levy 

Portrait of a Fat Body 
Ira Sukrungruang 

Fire Pit 
Benjamin Vogt 

 

 


 
 
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