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Pobo, Kenneth

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 28 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Ovaltine Factory, 1917 - 1985 
Kenneth Pobo 
College of DuPage 
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OVALTINE FACTORY, 1917-1985
My childhood was a smell 
of Ovaltine.  A sharp noon whistle.  
Walking to school, I neared
the factory, two blocks away.  
After closing it grew decrepit, 
windows busted, Satanic rituals 
held while we slept 
our suburban sleep.  
Some say it’s haunted —
now Ovaltine Courts.  Condos.
  
My teachers are all dead, 
some of my classmates.  We had 
Ovaltine in common, its big brick arms 
holding the town together 
as much as it could.  Before 
a wintery silence crept in
with spray-painted graffiti.
    - Kenneth Pobo
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Ovaltine Factory, 1917 - 1985

Grey, John

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 37 
Fall 12-1-2021 
That First Car 
John Grey 
College of DuPage 
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THAT FIRST CAR
 
So you don’t need me to countersign the loan. 
And your fake ID has been packed away 
with your pennants and Foo Fighters CDs. 
You can vote for president. 
No doubt it’ll be for the other guy. 
Radha Krishna. Acrylic on Canvas (Madhubani Painting).
Megha Jain
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THAT FIRST CAR
 
So you don’t need me to countersign the loan. 
And your fake ID has been packed away 
with your pennants and Foo Fighters CDs. 
You can vote for president. 
No doubt it’ll be for the other guy. 
All that’s standing between you 
and manhood is a car. 
The truth is you can’t afford one. 
You have a license 
thanks to my instruction and patience. 
But these days, 
when it comes time to impress the ladies, 
the operative words are “can I borrow?” 
You’re anxious when you do that. 
There’s an uncomfortable 
half-hiccup in your voice. 
It’s one of those very few times 
when you’re still a boy. 
I remember my first clunker, 
how real freedom finally arrived 
boxed in metal 
with fake leather upholstery 
and a smell worse 
than a mechanic’s armpit. 
My mother worried that I’d be killed. 
My father’s pride 
did laps of his face. 
I’m my own father now, 
and even a twinge or two of my mother. 
I want you independent, on your own. 
I want you here and safe. 
 
Like me, 
when the moment does come, 
you’ll grip the wheel, 
tap the accelerator a little, 
inch out onto the street, 
slowly fill the spaces 
that the automobile leaves for you. 
Like me, 
you’ll no longer be like me. 
    - John Grey
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That First Car

Trapani, Kris

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 39 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Left behind 
Kris Trapani 
College of DuPage 
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Left behind
Clinging to the ground
I plead for the world to stop
Spinning without me
  - Kris Trapani
Swallowtail. Photography. Frankie Garcia
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English, Carlene

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 46 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Remaining Roots 
Carlene English 
College of DuPage 
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Remaining Roots 
 
My backyard was once a jungle.  
Birds traveled far, all gathered there like Times Square. 
Amidst the city, I found refuge in the sea of feathered friends, performing their 
rehearsed dance to one lonely judge. 
 
Running the show like a mad orchestral conductor, stood one towering tree, 
alone and free.  
Branches like open palms offering autonomy to each hummingbird, sparrow, 
and finch.  
 
This crowded harmony ended abruptly as tall lumbermen stole the heart of their 
jungle.  
Now all that lies are dusty pencil shavings laden in solace, sprinkled upon the 
conductor’s grave. Mourning his death, I wait outside for the citizens to return, 
but they don’t linger on his absence, 
absence, 
absence. 
Though,
he remains underneath.
      - Carlene English
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Sardina, Linnea

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 53 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Playing With My Head 
Linnea Sardina 
College of DuPage 
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Give and Forget
Are there more starving
than the stars?
At night
the sick child’s heart
runs down
like a clock unwound;
in the morn
Aurora weeps
on a crooked elbow.
More starving 
it seems
more empty bellies
than the teeming
galaxies of space,
than the waves in the sea;
infinity hardly holds them.
Playing With My Head. Photography. Linnea Sardina
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Jain, Megha

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 59 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Hidden 
Megha Jain 
College of DuPage 
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Hidden. Collage. Megha Jain
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Hidden

Vali, Aleksandra

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 77 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Intersection Effect 
Aleksandra Vali 
College of DuPage 
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Trestrail, Susan

The Prairie Light Review 
Volume 44 
Number 1 Fall 2021 Article 81 
Fall 12-1-2021 
Back Cover 
Susan Trestrail 
College of DuPage 
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For this project, I opted to take a deep dive into a religious culture I was not familiar with, namely, Shinto. To demonstrate my knowledge on the subject, I decided on annotating one of the myths of the religion; I selected the myth of Susanoo slaying the Orochi from the Shinto chronicle known as the Kojiki. The citations are presented in MLA format, obtained largely from the College of DuPage\u27s library databases.
Faculty Sponsor: Beth Kempto

Bostwick, Samuel

Annotating Susanoo
A research project by Sam Bostwick
Overview
● Who is Susanoo?
● Why this course?
● Why this format?
Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. “Susanoo 
slaying Orochi” Wikipedia, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan
oo-no-Mikotoaccessed 5/10/2021.
My Experience with Shinto
“Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, rises from a cave” theculturetrip.com, 
https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/7-shinto-kami-youll-meet-in-japan/ accessed 5/10/2021
The Paper Itself
Bostwick, Sam. “Screenshots of my Project.” Google Docs, Sam Bostwick, Accessed 5/10/2021
Research Process
● Heavily collaborative
● Print + online synthesis
● Using my resources!
“Cover Page of Basil Hall’s Kojiki.” 
Amazon.com, accessed 5/10/2021
Project Bibliography
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Amaterasu". Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Aug. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Amaterasu. Accessed 29 March 2021.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Sake". Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Feb. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/sake. Accessed 25 April 2021.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Susanoo". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Mar. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Susanoo. Accessed 29 March 2021.
Cartwright, Mark. "Susanoo." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 19 Dec 2012. Web. 29 Mar 2021.
Chamberlain, Basil H. The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1982.
Crump, T.. Japanese Numbers Game, Taylor & Francis Group, 1992. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.cod.idm.oclc.org/lib/cod/detail.action?docID=167572.
Philippi, Donald L. Kojiki. University of Tokyo Press, 1968.
Picken, Stuart D. B. Historical Dictionary of Shinto. 2nd ed., Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Pierson, J. L. “The Characters and Their Part in the Structure of Japanese and Chinese Sentences.” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 11, no. 1, 1955, pp. 15–43. JSTOR, 
www.jstor.org/stable/2382993. Accessed 29 Mar. 2021.


Susanoo Annotated

This essay poses and responds uniquely to the following crucial questions: Does Rilke’s poetry poetize the event of Being for Dasein? Does Rilke indicate that the human being can yet achieve such a mode of “historical” existence in relation to the Earth or the holy? Heidegger responds to the first query in the affirmative; Rilke does poetize this event, albeit through a “tempered” and somewhat traditional view of Western metaphysics. To the second query, it appears that Heidegger responds in a slightly cryptic and ambiguous manner, and to clarify this response, I turn to Heidegger’s interpretation of Rilke’s “Angel” as a prophetic “metaphysical” figure of futural hope

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