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Avery, Lydia

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 53 
Spring 5-1-2022 
The Bathroom Jester 
Lydia Avery 
College of DuPage 
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The Bathroom Jester 
 Lydia Avery 
 
Thick, damp air rises to the ceiling
The jester has the courtroom reeling
Toes break through to the surface
Why today, what is its purpose
The jester likes to laugh and poke
Suffering always the butt of his joke
Fingertips prune-like raisins
Clear water meant to wash away sins
The Jester pries into dark green eyes
That are red and worn from all their lies
Lies of joy and contentment
The lie that they appreciate the sentiment
He gets beneath the peach skin
Sees the truth that lies within
Within the heart and soul
He sets it ablaze with a match and some coal
The King and his court point and laugh
The witch is dead, in her red and boiling bath
Nightmare Ink, 
Victoria Garcia
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The Bathroom Jester

Kimball, Matthew

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 56 
Spring 5-1-2022 
I Don't Need a Face 
Matthew Kimball 
College of DuPage 
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I Don’t Need a Face 
Matthew Kimball
The things that I have beared witness, 
To the annoyance of ears we call noises. 
And the smells too. 
I have decided that I no longer require this face. 
For it no longer makes do. 
 
I wish I could wipe away my face. 
Ocean eyes and rose petal lips shall be erased. 
Be gone with my emotions and my race. 
I will not care if you avert your gaze. 
Nor do I deserve gentle grace. 
 
No more shall I see the grayish hues. 
Or show my terrible blues. 
For I grow tired of all of the bad news. 
No reactions or words, only blankness. 
The paranoia has overtaken and left me anxious. 
Do you feel nervous of my non-existent gaze? 
For I grow tired of my ugly face. 
Snow Shadows, Jim Water
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Church, Madeleine

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 64 
Spring 5-1-2022 
Dusk 
Madeleine Church 
College of DuPage 
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Knight, Mandy

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 76 
Spring 5-1-2022 
Yellow Is a Great Color 
Mandy Knight 
College of DuPage 
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Honey Sweet Gold  
Tegan Merrick
My head is full of lead
Somebody unscrewed my skull and loaded it with gold bars
Closed it up and
Took a flame to my face
Like a welder molding iron
Glassblower with his white hot coals
Burning and burning until my skin melts off
And my hair goes up in flames
Till there’s nothing left of me
Besides a skeleton
Leaking honey sweet gold
Yellow is a Great 
Color, 
Mandy Knight
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Novotny, Katie

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 83 
Spring 5-1-2022 
9016 
Katie Novotny 
College of DuPage 
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9016, Katie Novotny
Double Diamond, Jim Water
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9016

Murray, Karlette

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 87 
Spring 5-1-2022 
Wisdom Will Set You Free 
Karlette Murray 
College of DuPage 
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around your face, like the rays of the sun. That’s what you were— to me 
at least— the brilliant star in the daytime sky that made me feel all warm 
inside.
     “Sunflowers always look at the sun,” I had responded.
     Because they do. If you were the sun, then the whole world was a field 
of sunflowers, lost in the brilliance of you. And I stood among them, lost 
in the crowd of thousands, gazing longingly at you, hoping that I could 
wake up everyday to your rays and your gentle warmth. Many other sun-
flowers were taller or fuller or more vibrant than I was; many other sun-
flowers were broader and sturdier than me as well. A person on ground 
level wouldn’t be able to pick me out, much less a beaming, brilliant star 
like yourself. 
     But you smiled and still got closer and closer. Your lips reached my ears 
and whispered a sweet promise.
     “Is that why I can’t take my eyes off of you?” And as you kissed me, 
I had to wonder if there was ever a chance that sunflowers looked at each 
other when they were missing the sun.
Wisdom Will Set You Free, Karlette Murray
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Fortier, Mardelle

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 2 Spring 2022 Article 88 
Spring 5-1-2022 
Haleakala 
Mardelle Fortier 
College of DuPage 
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Haleakala  
Mardelle Fortier
 
Flowering silver grasses
hang onto precarious existence
in ancient lava rocks
on a wind-swept rim of
deep dead volcano.
Over us flies Pueo,
day owl, mystical messenger;
I pray his pewter wings guard us from unknown danger.
Ages and ages have passed in silence.
 
Far below, cinder cones
lurk in a haze of golden light.
 
We stand facing the sunset
hence unable to see our souls
in shadows, framed in rainbows.
Sonnet No. 1 
John Ogan
When the sun rises in the painted east
And shines on waves that roll onto the shore,
It beams its rays reaching to the far west.
O sun! You are the joy that chimes the morn!
As beetles drink dew drops on moist grass strands,
The seagulls call through trees that filter light.
Over sandbars fall waves, sounding the land,
The rocks will be warmed even into night.
The earliest life came from light and sea,
Slowly crawling onto the bright firm land.
Evolving species that have yet to be,
The first giant leap was onto the sand!
As our sun climbs over vast turquoise sea,
Nature paints a long history of me.
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Thalia and Hermes interview Hera and Hercules about the Twelve Labors on a show called The Comedics.
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Dellutri, Jack

Kennedy, Julia

Guerrero, Adrian

The Comedics

Herrmann, Joe

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 45 
Number 1 Fall 2022 Article 10 
Fall 12-1-2022 
Rabbit and Robot 
Joe Herrmann 
College of DuPage 
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Carroll, Christine

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 45 
Number 1 Fall 2022 Article 12 
Fall 12-1-2022 
And Like A Sunflower, We Rise 
Christine Carroll 
College of DuPage 
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Carroll, Christine (2022) "And Like A Sunflower, We Rise," The Prairie Light Review: Vol. 45: No. 1, Article 
12. 
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Christine Carroll. And Like A Sunflower, We Rise. Lino Print & Watercolor
Dawn
Kait Harland
What time more fresh and free,
What hour more loving and true,
Than the moment in the morning
When the sun glints off  the dew?
When it seems the air’s unbreathed,
And no one’s awake but you.
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