UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes is an annual showcase of writers and artists with one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Davy Josh’s Note -- A Note from Chalise -- A Note from Emily Wall -- Brain Bucket -- Cephalic index -- A Gift of Fat for the Fire -- Our heroes have always been... -- Colorful Clouds -- Role Model -- Anchors -- Out My Window -- Adaptation -- Bookshelves -- In the Flow -- It’s a Small World Parade Float -- Sexy -- Death by Algebra -- Friend -- mirabile visu -- Exchange II -- F A D E -- Borne Alone -- Continuum -- The Week Before St. Valentine’s -- Bottled Up -- Untitled -- Early Morning Conspiracy Theory -- Westport -- Boulder Creek -- Jumping Off Rooftops -- Staying in the Room With Ernestine Hayes -- Blueberry -- After Neruda By Way of Bly (Tenure) -- Magic of Water -- Old Tom Steals the Light -- Old Tom Finds a Whale -- Research Project -- Guppy (boat) -- Arizona Spyder -- From Anthropomorphism to Zoomorphism -- Bus Stop -- December 1, 1955 -- Between Tides at Twilight -- Dementia -- Winter Ferry -- Coming into Auke Bay -- The Search for Jane Rogers -- Inlaid Tea Cups -- The Big Melt -- Kingsmill Reef -- Despite Man’s Best Efforts to Ruin It -- Roberts from Flume -- India Scarf -- Painted and Petrified -- Medicine Bag -- Merrill Field -- Deadly Kites -- Brazilian Ghetto -- Seattle Riff -- The Gospel Truth of My Gay Bird -- Signing the Divorce Papers -- Red Shades -- Holey Cow -- Untitled -- Series of Cedar Baskets -- A Conversation With Ranunculus -- Deconstruction -- Sandy Beach -- Threshold -- Oil and Honesty: An Interview with Artist and Professor David Woodie -- Mitkof #3 -- Still Life -- First Day of Fall -- Falling in the Garden -- After Finishing an Activities Report for the Dean -- Homage to Po Chü-I -- Nunc Dimittis -- Do Wise Men Have Bad Days? -- To the Plain Land -- Flood of ‘69 -- How a woman makes her own wine -- Untitled (translation from Russian) -- Existential Sestina -- It’s the knowing -- Blood and Guts -- Sometime Walking on the Beach -- Untitled -- Connecting the Pieces -- Hemlock -- Klawock Island -- Driven By the Tides -- Lunch -- The People -- Howling Dog -- Winter Cabin Lullaby -- Chain Gang -- A Review of Social Groups in Female Homo Sapiens as Exemplified by Mammary Restraint -- Apparatuses -- Douglas Island Bridge -- Going Home -- Author and Artist Biographie

UAS Literary & Arts Journal

Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Editor’s Note -- Acknowledgements -- Chinatown Hotel -- Living by a Tank Farm Cradle Song -- Superfund -- June 20, 1977 -- Pipe Dreams -- 23 Camp Rules -- Facing the Wind -- Gray Peace -- Music on Troubled Waters -- Dark Smoke of Goodbye -- 1969 Anit-War Rally -- Old Canyon Studio -- Elegy -- Lifeline -- Load your Lips! -- Let’s Call this One an Origin Story -- Dirt -- Constellations -- Chemawa School Cemetery (Founded 1886) -- Unfinished Business -- Triptych, Easter 2011 -- Gardening with Elijah -- Winter Promise -- Daanaawaakh -- Morning Miracle -- Untitled -- Pets at Marks Trail -- Summer Bears -- Rie’s Song -- October Luna -- Persephone’s Return -- “Arctic Terns” -- Let’s Not Give Mind to Existentialism -- Killing the Queen -- Split Wood -- Capturing a Moment: An Interview with Patrice Helmar -- Cleanse -- Aunt Jen -- The Spoken Forest -- Love -- Things I Remember About My Dad -- September on the Cruise Ship Dock -- Potatoes -- Gray Matter -- Termination Dust -- Pick Up Lines for Poets -- The Catch -- Low Fidelity -- Icky Little Miracles -- The Geometry of Words: An Interview With Kim Heacox -- Yesterday -- Prince Rupert -- around a white man’s fire -- Once So Close -- Stasis -- Haul Out -- Heidi’s Boy -- Pearls of Wisdom -- Only Once -- Utopia -- Autumn’s Turning Colors -- Eight-Bar Screen-Door Blues -- Bloodlines -- Sky Blue Sky -- The Best Country Song She Never Wrote -- Shellscape -- She Would Never Understand His Hipster Ways -- Eagle -- Badlands -- Dryas from Ground Level -- Learning the Ropes; Lucid Memory -- Liquor Shack -- Reflecyflec -- Man Feeding Birds in Istanbul -- Real Good Heart -- Self Portrait, New England; Roald’s Hair -- Harem Wall; Roma -- Calypso; The Suitors -- Dream of the Kores -- Domestic Items -- Steel Ka -- Cast Iron Clay -- Oil and Vinegar Set; Coffee Set -- Queen of Wastelandia -- Shino Tea Set -- Sprout; Catch -- My Eyes Have Seen You -- Minuet -- Shooting Stars -- Escape Artist -- Fall Leaf; First Cast -- Caribou -- Author and Artist Biographie