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Persad, Samantha

The 
Promethean 
Volume 28 
Issue 1 The Last Torch (2019-2020) Article 5 
4-1-2020 
Symbiosis 
Samantha Persad 
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Symbiosis

Beukelman, Micah

A Body to Serve, A Body to Suffer

Allegretti, Griffin

Tulips

Ohren, Brooke S.

Crappy Father\u27s Day

Person

The 
Promethean 
Volume 28 
Issue 1 The Last Torch (2019-2020) Article 42 
4-1-2020 
forestsounds 
Micah Beukelman 
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forestsounds 
Micah Beukelman 
 
 
is it true 
 
 
 
 
 
 
          that when a tree falls in the forest 
        and no one is there 
         it doesn’t make a sound? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        I fell, 
 
 
         
     (just there) 
 
 
 
           in the woods 
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did I make a sound? 
 did my skull crashing against the earthroots sound like  
  cracking thunder? 
 did my cries for help sound like  
  crows shrieking over windrushes? 
 did my gasping breaths sound like  
  gusts through fingerfronds? 
 
 
 
did I fall on deaf ears 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
or 
 
 
 was 
   
 
   I 
     
     unheard? 
  
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forestsounds

The 
Promethean 
Volume 28 
Issue 1 The Last Torch (2019-2020) Article 43 
4-1-2020 
Sostenuto 
Micah Beukelman 
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Sostenuto 
Micah Beukelman 
 
Three pedaled feet. 
one—dampens all, fluid, blended 
two—singular staccato, short, sharp 
three—dampens individual, muffled, shrouded 
 
I lay under the feet 
Once I was one 
layered and lifted, soft and melodic 
Then I was two 
rapid hammer strikes, precise, brief 
Finally, three.  
ringing ethereal, sustained, prolonged 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A seat of four legs, hollowed in the middle— that’s where I lay. 
I stay in the space below myself, below the pedals, lined with 
felt and lowered down. Six feet under, six inches away from the 
keys, there’s no difference to be had. It’s neither a coffin nor a 
piano but both. The lid is closed and the sound stops, dampened 
with the third foot. Surrounded by ivory bone and wood, paper 
skin and ink blood. Scrawled on my wrists are ledger lines, 
scars as notes.  
My key signature is a flatline. 
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Sostenuto

Anonymous,

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Issue 1 The Last Torch (2019-2020) Article 57 
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it has been two years 
Anonymous 
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it has been two years 
Anonymous 
 
It has been two years since the night  
she stepped into a friend's apartment  
with a smile on her face 
and left two hours later  
with purpling wrists  
and blood between her legs. 
 
It has been two years and things are better now.  
But this week has been hard. 
 
On Monday at the supermarket someone looks like him.  
On Tuesday the smell of spearmint sends her two years back in 
time.  
On Wednesday she wakes up gasping for breath, still trapped 
under the weight of his body. 
She thinks that by Thursday she’ll be herself again  
But by Friday she can’t even look in the mirror without feeling his 
fingerprints on every inch of her skin. 
 
 
But things are better now and none of this should matter.  
She comes home every day to a man who knows every twist and 
turn of her past 
and still looks at her like she’s shiny and new. 
As he kisses her forehead and gently squeezes her arms, 
she feels sunshine flowing from his body into her hollow veins. 
Her shoulders fall from their tensed position near her ears 
warmth races from her face to her fingertips and dances down her 
back. 
 
When she gets in bed at night he smiles sleepily from his pillow 
and pulls her to his chest.  
He wraps one arm around her like a seatbelt; keeping her safe 
without holding her down. 
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This week has been hard but things should be better now.  
So when his touch does not fill her with warm rays of light 
but sends a shiver down her spine, 
she pushes the feeling to the back of her mind  
and tries to remind herself that these hands are not the ones that 
hurt her. 
 
 
He slides his hand between her thighs the way he knows she likes,  
but her stomach turns and tightens as she fights the urge to 
squirm away.  
He could never hurt me, I'm fine, she repeats in her mind 
as she relives the night that tore her life in two. 
 
 
Hot tears sting her eyelids as the back of his hand  
collides with the right side of her face, 
rattling her teeth as his knuckles meet her cheekbone. 
 
 
She closes her eyes and tilts her chin up,  
disguising her panic as pleasure. 
 
 
He clamps one hand around both of her wrists 
holding her arms like a child clutching a lollipop.  
 
 
 
His body moves against hers with soft, loving intention,  
but she is somewhere else entirely. 
 
 
Cracked, unfeeling lips crash down on her own 
the stale taste of cigarettes and spearmint  
creeps down her throat and into her lungs. 
 
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This is not the first time this has happened 
So it does not take long for him to realize 
that something isn’t right. 
 
 
But things should be better now 
and she insists that everything is fine. 
 
 
Everything is fine, she tells herself.  
Everything is fine. 
  
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Delgado, Eldanabi

The 
Promethean 
Volume 28 
Issue 1 The Last Torch (2019-2020) Article 62 
4-1-2020 
Sunset Symphony 
Eldanabi Delgado 
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A quasi-experimental quantitative study using a pretest-posttest design examined the effects of Reader’s Theater to eighth graders fluency and comprehension development. The study used 50 eighth grade students with 25 students making up the control group and 25 students making up the experimental group. Reader’s Theater was used as an intervention with the experimental group for 30 minutes a day for 6 weeks while the control group used regular instructional methods including summarizing, questioning, and text-dependent questions. Data were gathered using a fluency passage from Easy CBM and a 20-question comprehension passage from Easy CBM. Most students showed improvement in their fluency and comprehension scores after the study. Data suggested that Reader’s Theater is effective in increasing both variables among students within the intervention group. The gains between the experimental group and the control group based on posttest data showed a significant difference. Results from this study indicated the effectiveness of using Reader’s Theater at the secondary grade level to increase both fluency and comprehension scores. This study was unique in that it uses a primary grade level intervention such as Reader’s Theater with eighth grade students to suggest a way to bridge reading gaps in secondary students

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