Wild Violet Featured Works: Week of Sep 30 (Love, Part 2)

By on Sep 30, 2013 in Issue Archives

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In honor of my wedding anniversary, which was this past weekend, this week marks the second of a two-part look at love. This time, our contributors tackle some of love’s thornier challenges:

Mary Julia Klimenko’s poem, “Blue Hydrangea,” explores the mixed feelings of fear and desire that can accompany love and sex. 

In Julia Ryan’s short story, “Dunkirk Dilemma,” a World War 2 nurse honors a dying soldier’s wish and finds herself on the front lines of a war against homosexuality.

Kaitlin Deasy’s poem, “Tsunami,” shows what happens when people with two very different elemental personalities fall in love. 

David W. Landrum’s short story, “The Girl Who Was Like Ruby Tuesday,” is a romance from the age of Free Love, where sex, drugs and music lead to an unforgettable connection. 

Kaithlin Deasy’s poem, “Mule Heart,” ventures into that nebulous territory when love lingers even after the loved one is gone. 

 

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Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.