{"id":71,"date":"2011-05-18T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2011-05-18T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:59:31","slug":"issue2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/","title":{"rendered":"236.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>FICTION: E. V. SLATE<br \/>\n<em>Leaving Chimbai Road<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The one thing Teresa didn\u2019t want anyone to know about her, but which everyone seemed to find out,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/slate\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>POETRY: JOHN SPAULDING<br \/>\n<em>Watching Newsreels<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>A small girl was lost inside a deep well.<br \/>\nSomeone swam the English Channel.<br \/>\nRoosters pecked at our boots and<br \/>\neveryone was afraid of airplanes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/spaulding\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>POETRY: ERICA WEITZMAN<br \/>\n<em>from \u201cStudies\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>As if I\u2019d signed a peace with forgetting<br \/>\nall my abandoned fetishes are returning to make their claims:<br \/>\nAvenue des Limites\u2014all that weird suburban Euro-stucco<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/weitzman\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>POETRY: JASON ROUSH<br \/>\n<em>First Lesson<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>In the middle of the mess hall at Camp Kern<br \/>\nstood a miniature model of Camp Kern<br \/>\nand in the middle of the model<br \/>\nloomed the Camp Kern chapel<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/roush\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>POETRY: NATHANIEL PERRY<br \/>\n<em>From a Diary, Dorn County<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>In his death, the marksman<br \/>\nmissed a step.<br \/>\nHe was in a tree<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/perry\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>POETRY: MARK WAGNER<br \/>\n<em>Here is the Plot<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Here is the plot: A boy built a home<br \/>\nWith a girl who gave him money.<br \/>\nShe wouldn\u2019t say where she found it, though<br \/>\nThe money was awfully dirty.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/wagner\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>POETRY: REBECCA BELLA<br \/>\n<em>Healer Seen on TV<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI can see into people,\u201d<br \/>\nshe declares, stirs birch branches<br \/>\non the surface of the pool,<br \/>\nlegs pinked by the bath<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/bella\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>FICTION: MATTHEW LIEBOWITZ<br \/>\n<em>Two Deer<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Before they divorced, near the end of the fighting, the boy had a dream. He woke up early and slid into the empty left side of the bed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/liebowitz\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>PLAYS: DAVID ERVIN<br \/>\n<em>The Tree Thing<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>JOE, 30, stands next to a tree in a school yard. He holds a slip of paper.<br \/>\nA woman approaches him.<br \/>\nWOMAN: Can I help you?<br \/>\nJOE: Hmm? No. I\u2019m just waiting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/past-issues\/issue2\/ervin\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FICTION: E. V. SLATE Leaving Chimbai Road The one thing Teresa didn\u2019t want anyone to know about her, but which everyone seemed to find out,\u00a0more&#8230; POETRY: JOHN SPAULDING Watching Newsreels A small girl was lost inside a deep well. Someone swam the English Channel. Roosters pecked at our boots and everyone was afraid of airplanes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/98"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}