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T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
It May Have Been August Caitlin Crowley-FeldheimVernazza Reected Kristy BenoitConstruction Site; an Approach to erapy Taylor Loy Laughing Out Loud Alyssa Haak Love Jessica SchaferIn Loving Memory Benjamin Casey McGrathe Bull Fight Evan Alexander ChappleRipe Ben KajaMuseum of Hostages at Katzenstein Castle Taylor Loy Walking with My Unborn Son Tom DunnBeauty Under Foot Jessica SchaferGraveyard Across the Road from Our Small Pond Katherine BrumbaughPonders Jennifer Pavlak Laurel Katherine BrumbaughGratia Plena Joshua D. CrabillSinking in Shallow Water Orlando Dos ReisD.C. Religion Katherine SwettLes Oiseaux de Paris Joshua D. CrabillHand Joseph DunfordBodies Jessica Schafer A Casualty of War Tom DunnPollux Interrupted Joshua D. Crabille Grieving under Chad Patrick Bailey Diving Amanda LoschLuce della Chiesa Nicole FieldBreathe Caitlin Crowley-FeldheimDeportation Train (Lithuania) Johanna FieldIn the Spring After Our Separation Joshua D. CrabillFading Color Suzanne Day Tangerine Scream Alexandra FordNight Vision Riya Sarkerree Trees Jessica Schafer
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Silhouette Volume 30, Issue 2, was produced by the Silhouette sta and printed by Franklin Graphics, located in Nashville, TN. e paper is 80 lb. Porcelain witha 100 lb. Porcelain cover. e fonts used throughout the magazine are Adobe Garamond Pro and Handwriting-Dakota. Silhouette Literary and Art Magazine isa division of Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech, Inc. (EMCVT), a nonprot organization that fosters student media at Virginia Tech. Please send allcorrespondence to 344 Squirers Student Center, Blacksburg VA, 24061. All Virginia Tech students who are not part of the sta are invited to submit to the magazine. All rights revert to the artist upon publication. To become a subscriber to Silhouette, send a check for $10 for each year subscription (two magazines) to the addressabove, c/o Business Manager or visit EMCVT’s e-commerce website at www.collegemedia.com/shop. For more information visit our website at www.silhouette.collegemedia.com or call our oce at 540-231-4124.
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W e l c o m e
Wel co me
Welcome to the thirtieth anniversary of Silhouette.rough a few persistent English students and a dedicated English faculty member Silhouette rstpublished in the spring of 1978. Silhouette continued as part of the English Department until1983, when it then joined the Student Media Board. In 1997 the Student Media Board becameindependent from the university to form the Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech,Inc. (EMCVT). Ten years later Silhouette is still a part of EMCVT, a non-prot, student-runorganization.Silhouette was originally published once a year in the spring until the 1988-1989 school year, when the university changed to the semester system. From then on the magazine was publishedonce a semester, twice a year.Silhouette is dedicated to promoting the arts in and around the Virginia Tech community. erst duty of the magazine is to showcase undergraduate and graduate work of prose, poetry,ne art, and photography. e magazine also supports the artistic culture through readings andbenets.is spring, Silhouette is excited to continue the thirty-year tradition of showcasing student work. With the help of the faculty member who assisted students in publishing the rst issue of Silhouette, Dr. Claude Clayton Smith, we have been able to make this spring issue a little special.anks to Dr. Smith and the English Department of Ohio Northern University, includingstudents of Sigma Tau Delta, the sta of Shakespeare and the Classroom, and English majors who attended a benet reading, we were able to oer a monetary prize for two pieces of creative writing.e prize was not given to celebrate Silhouette’s thirtieth birthday. Dr. Smith, an author of ction, nonction, poetry and plays who recently retired as Professor of English from OhioNorthern University, gives the reason best in his own words: on May 25th, in a letter addressedto the chair of the English Department, Carolyn Rude, Dr. Smith wrote, “Last weekend, whileattending my son’s master’s ceremony at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I was movedby a large white board with a Virginia Tech logo in the center of campus, inscribed by thousandsof students.” In remembrance of our fellow students, Dr. Smith has personally chosen thelucky prizewinners. e winners are the poem “Construction site, an approach to therapy” by Taylor Loy and the prose piece “I’m Sorry I Laughed at Your Funeral” by Alyssa Haak. When heannounced the winners, Dr. Smith wrote, “Each piece controls its language within the demandsof its genre to create some startling eects. And each piece can be read, of course, as an obliqueresponse to the tragedy of last spring, while gaining power in reecting ANY loss, large or small.” We now ask that you enjoy each and every piece presented in this issue. And for a little bit of funcheck out some covers from the past thirty years on the next page.Sincerely,
Hali Plourde-Rogers and Jenna Wolfe
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