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Buckau, Jameson

Floodwall Magazine 
Volume 2 
Issue 10 Fall 2024 Article 30 
December 2024 
Blocking, Enacted, to Avoid Burns of the Fourth Degree 
Jameson Buckau 
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Blocking, Enacted, to Avoid Burns of the Fourth Degree 
Sometimes I need someone to be angry for me. 
I’ll text my closest friend about some religious rhetoric my parents are 
spewing,
how they’re telling me I’m ruining my life and going to hell, 
how I’ll never be loved living this way. 
And I can’t be sad about it because I’m too angry, 
for that little child I used to be, 
who used to believe this.
I’m too angry for them. 
So, 
I call my friend and tell them, 
I need you to be angry for me, 
just for five minutes, 
and then they rant about the injustices of the cruel hand a child is dealt, 
dealing with parents who would watch me burn before forsaking their 
god.
And I cry and cry for the full five minutes, 
handing the anger off to someone else, 
taking a break. 
I just need to know someone is angry, 
for me, 
with me.
I can’t put it down, 
someone has to hold the anger. 
Anger doesn’t make me cry like it used to. 
I used to have white hot tears streaking my face as I was argued at, 
scorching lines against my freckles,
but anger doesn’t let you mourn or vent, 
it just burns like a fire in a windstorm. 
I blocked my dad. 
There’s not so much to hold now.
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Jameson Kay Olson Buckau (2002) is a graduate teaching assistant and 
master’s student in the English Department. They did their undergrad 
at Black Hills State University in South Dakota. They are queer and trans 
and come from a religious background, which influences much of his 
writing. He has a dog named Bailey, who enjoys long walks by the river, 
meeting new people, and cuddling after dinner. Jameson is specializing 
in creative writing as well as queer theory, with an interest in postcolo-
nial studies. They believe in the unending fight for all people’s liberation 
under the powers of colonialism and white supremacy.
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Blocking, Enacted, to Avoid Burns of the Fourth Degree

The caption on the back of this undated photograph reads  Franklin\u27s Saloon, south side E.G.F. on DeMers. 
There were two Franklin saloons noted in city directories for East Grand Forks and it is not clear which of them is seen in this photograph. One on the 100 block was primarily owned by W.T. Franklin, between at least 1882 and 1903. The other at 319 was primarily owned by George Franklin, between at least 1909 and 1916.https://commons.und.edu/gf-city-photos/1194/thumbnail.jp

Grand Forks Herald

Franklin Saloon

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Tweten, Rock

Charlie Pride

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Annie

Photograph of George F. Blackburn\u27s residence at 412 South Fifth Street, ca. 1900.https://commons.und.edu/gf-city-photos/1227/thumbnail.jp

Residence of George F. Blackburn, ca.1900.

Grev, J.G.

Floodwall Magazine 
Volume 2 
Issue 10 Fall 2024 Article 27 
December 2024 
Lovesick 
J.G. Grev 
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Lovesick
I had grown cold, rotten, sickening. I worried so much about keeping 
you full that I couldn’t keep myself from spoiling. I might have been 
good in another life where hunger was enough to make you stay. If I 
had given more of my skin and marrow, would you be satisfied? Was I 
easier to stomach before you cut me open? Before you discovered the 
rot inside? You cannot pick and choose which parts of me to love. If I am 
to be swallowed, swallow me whole.
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Lovesick

Borgen, Colin

Floodwall Magazine 
Volume 2 
Issue 10 Fall 2024 Article 31 
December 2024 
If You Turn My Body to Stone 
Colin Borgen 
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If You Turn My Body to Stone
If you turn my body to stone, leave my pulverized teeth by the lake-
shore. They will speak themselves the perfect skipping stone, and when I 
skim across the water, the bounce will sound like laughter, and the spray 
will look like a child inner-tubing on the last perfect day of summer. And 
when I settle into the silt I will look up to see sun-glimmer beneath the 
waves.
If you turn my body to stone, leave my blinded eyes on the play-
ground. They will stare into the soul of a child and lay bare the most 
beautiful canvas, and I will be painted white and blue and red and gold. 
I might win the annual rock-painting competition, and I might lose. And 
after this endeavor is forgot, I might be left in the rafters of the picnic 
area, above the smell of the grill and below the battering of the roof. 
If you turn my body to stone, leave my conflagrated lungs atop a 
knoll. They will breathe in the summer grasses and the spring petrichor 
and the autumn decay and the fresh bite of winter. And when I have 
had my fill I will save a stumbling hiker, and inertia will gift me one last 
moment to roll through the dandelions and blow their thousand wishes 
Two Poems
Colin Borgen
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across the open prairie.
If you turn my body to stone, leave my calcified heart for you. Drill 
a hole through my aorta and run a chain through the severance. Wear 
me at the birthdays and the barbeques and the job interviews and the 
first dates and the weddings. Pass me down as a story and a myth and 
surely it’s not really—
When you are sad or scared or lonely, when you are quiet at home 
and when you sleep in that silence, drape me around your neck so I can 
feel your heartbeat. Let me live a thousand lives and know the one I 
loved most will always be the one with you.
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Fuller, Casey

Floodwall Magazine 
Volume 2 
Issue 10 Fall 2024 Article 35 
December 2024 
Hologram Tupac 2012 
Casey Fuller 
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Hologram Tupac 2012
Snoop Dogg must be careful 
to walk around but not into 
the invisible layer of light
Pac is being projected on
but Snoop must also walk 
close enough to the layer 
that the life-size image 
backlit by blue light
seems like a miracle
to the hundreds of thousands 
who like a last rite
have come to Coachella
to see a resurrection 
beyond some small 
mushroom-derived 
hallucinations where 
for one second 
because of the buzz
belief is suspended
holy ghosts appear possible
and your dead dad
who recently passed
in a quick bout 
of cancer in both lungs 
can perhaps rejoin you
in your second of doubt
the rules appear rewritten 
at this gateway
Pac seems some bright
new harbinger of.
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Hologram Tupac 2012

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