Euphemism, ISU’s literary journal came out. As I spent four years getting two degrees at Illinois State and a few years on the staff, this journal is a little baby to me which made it much all the more pleased that this year they accepted four of my pieces (two poems and two essays.) Over the next couple of weeks, I will post the work for you guys to enjoy! The first:
no light to come
Rachael Stanford
I waited with razor blade eyes for a voice,
any voice, to tell me that can’t
could be undone.
waited, wrist atrophied
body pruning to death
amongst scented bubbles
to know
we is not are
not the doodles of remembrance
in our youthful futures.
unequivocal proof that is
isn’t only a perfect mess
potentially erased
is only is [sic]
but knowing that with wanting
what the answer could only be,
that even, if only, for the blink of an eye
even, if only, in the last lucent moments
before the drunkard stumbles
into their perpetual state of dis-existence
that we could never still be, but in—
if only
finding that never
sometimes is our only constant
the separation between you and I
exist besides grammatical purposes
(if only)
in a fractured corner of the Jungian mind
separated and immersed in
slipping words
chests of watery graves
(if only)
the pressure pushes
upon my breast
The neon lights
my heaven
Street of Dreams 
Nice word play!
Congratulations! I am very happy for you.
very nice poetry. Check out my blog and follow if you would like at lilybunny.com
Wow. Thanks for sharing these little morsels with us. I really do appreciate what you’re doing, you’re a great person and offered some very nice words when things were getting rough.
Hello Rachel. I like very much your poem(s) and the jornal project. Thank you for sharing!
Congrats!
If only I was not broken beyond repair.held together if only with scotch
wow amazed by every word I read it more than once.
Congratulations!
Excellent. Grats. (I used to live in B-N, and went to ISU for Philosophy.)
Daniel
Congratulations! Doesn’t it feel good?
Congratulations!! Very excited for you.
Good news Congrats
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