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Excerpt from Stutter 
by Joshua Morse 
Timberline

Sadness begins for my brother and me
the night he wakes, asking that I come see
Princess Leia in the living room by the wood stove.

I watched a twig's shadow scratch
on his tongue while he struggled
to mouth the words, his stutter grown

in the night the way all darkness grows-
by blotting out the light, my brother's tongue
confounded. I pieced together each particle,

the vocal fragments, to make a picture
of Nathan watching the movie,
how still he sat when she walked on the screen,

how he swooped his head with Luke Skywalker
swinging on the rope that carried him and Leia to safety,
her hair rolled to pinwheels on the side of head.

Her voice was fluid, so sure of itself.
I rose with him to go find her.

Ehud Havazelet 
Garrett Hongo 
Dorianne Laux 
Pimone Triplett 

Associated Faculty 
Robert Hill Long  

Visiting Faculty 
Grace Talusan 

Stutter 
Joshua Morse 

The Death of 
the Author 
Melanie Conroy-Goldman 

from Urban Renewal 
Major Jackson 

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Shimon Tanaka 

 
 
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