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MADISON BELL (Fiction)
ELIZABETH SPIRES (Poetry)

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The student-edited journal of Goucher students' literature and art, published annually

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Goucher College Creative Writing Program

CYPRESSES, BATHING
by Christine Stewart
On my way, I come upon them--
A gathering of old women
Soaking their cracked, graying skin,
Their thick bodies sprawling voluptuously:
Knees bent,
Curving out of the water,
Heads thrown back in a tangle of vines and leaves.
I pause a moment,
Waiting to hear their voices echoing with years,
Telling me what I need to know,
But the sun has made them sleepy and secretive;
I hear only their whispered laughter.
They do not trust me;
I am not yet ready to listen.