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Synthesis of Novel Donor Diaminonaphthalene Derivatives towards Advanced Functionality in Donor-Acceptor Columnar Liquid Crystal Applications

Sarupria, Manan

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Volume 72 Number 1 Article 15 
Unfamiliar 
Manan Sarupria 
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Unfamiliar 
Manan Sarupria 
 
 


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Unfamiliar

Blue, Kate

Exile 
Volume 72 Number 1 Article 25 
silver screen 
Kate Blue 
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silver screen 
Kate Blue 
 
all eyes on the silver screen 
this time yellow and red 
a laugh ripples through us all 
and warms us in its stead. 
nothing's special quite like this 
to watch them on a screen 
the taste life left on my tongue 
for me to find out what it means. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


silver screen

Riley, Evelyn

Animalistic Intimacy: The Role of the Cat in Asian American Self Actualization

Koeppen, Elizabeth

Exile 
Volume 72 Number 1 Article 4 
Sestina for Salt Lake Civility 
Elizabeth Koeppen 
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Sestina for Salt Lake Civility  
Elizabeth Koeppen 
 
Teacher gave us treats after every picture book 
we read – nothing fancy, usually modest 
squares of chocolate or sometimes straight sugar 
cubes, or today, taffy made of salt– 
water and fuschia fruit of the prickly 
pear cactus, an anomaly made possible only by God. 
 
Pink and green swirls so enchanting, my God, 
how could this stem from fruit pictured in textbooks 
we read each day on the carpet? The prickly 
rug stung my bare knees as I held the modest- 
sized sweet in my sweaty palm, salt 
seeping through the wax paper of today’s sugar. 
 
My teeth sunk in, granules of sugar 
against my tongue, which slipped the words, “Gosh, 
this is good,” when I tasted the salt 
too. There are some things a book 
can’t show you – the descriptions modest 
and technical, afraid to prick. 
 
Textbooks felt smooth and flat, but Bible pricked 
the fingers of its readers, whose eyes fell glossy as the sugar 
my teachers consumed in their 8 oz modest 
cans of Coke every morning because God’s 
prophet prohibited “hot drinks for body and belly” in a book 
that rests under every right palm in this Salt 
 
Lake Valley. The prophet’s power stung salt 
in my eyes, turned my throat prickly 
when my classmate glared over her textbook, 
her eyes scathing my knees, lending no sugar 
to thy neighbor. She said, “God, 
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pray for this girl, and her clothing, immodest, 
 
may she honor you tomorrow, be modest 
like me.” My tongue froze, twisted around salt 
water taffy. I wondered how our God’s 
words could be heard so differently. She pricked 
my ears, her prayers like needles dipped in sugar. 
Did we truly read from the same book? 
 
Did it make me God-loving and Book-abiding if 
their sugar tasted of nothing but salt to me, 
pricking all my blood until I faded into the color of modesty? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Sestina for Salt Lake Civility

Fischel, Mia

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Volume 72 Number 1 Article 5 
Versatile 
Mia Fischel 
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Versatile 
Mia Fischel 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Versatile

Bui, Han

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Volume 72 Number 1 Article 9 
Slayter Flagpole 
Han Bui 
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Slayter Flagpole 
Han Bui 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Slayter Flagpole

Olvera, Monica

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Volume 72 Number 1 Article 34 
Duck Duck Goose 
Monica Olvera 
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Duck Duck Goose 
Monica Olvera 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Duck Duck Goose

Stauffer, Maya

Exile 
Volume 72 Number 1 Article 35 
Strength 
Maya Stauffer 
Denison University 
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Strength 
Maya Stauffer 
 
 
