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Kula Manu 2010 ArtandLiteraryMagazine DepartmentofEnglish BrighamYoungUniversity-Hawaii Coverart,"Captured"byMeghanHarrison Theideas,themes,andperspectivesexpressedintheKulaManuarethoseofthe authorsthemselves,andarenotneccessarilyinlinewiththeviewsoftheeditors oftheKulaManu,BrighamYoungUniversity,orTheChurchofJesusChristof Latter-DaySaints. Copyright2010BYU-HawaiiDepartmentofEnglish.Copyrightforindividual workisretainedbytheindividualauthorsandartists. Kula Manu 2010 DirectorofEnglishDepartment KeithPeterson FacultyDirector MyrnaMarler Editors-in-Chief Nate Stout KeolaKinghorn KealaEscalante FictionEditor LaceyLaycock AssistantFictionEditor Laurelle Steele EssayEditor MaggieHarris AssistantEssayEditor FelipeMartins PoetryEditor J. JordanBerardy AssistantPoetryEditor AndrewCota ArtEditor VeronicaMendoza AssistantArtEditor Michael Bacera ContestEntrySupervisors Lee Bungard AngelaBroderick PhotoEditor NataliaFerguson AssistantPhotoEditor Wil Barber LayoutEditor SaraBezdjian John "JJ" Jensen Reception Coordinators EleanorHicks Pesile Solomone Special thanks to Neldyn Cochran, Scth Cosby, Ceres Esera, Irish Lugo, Kaylani Setoki, JericaTafiti, ElliceTan, and Siniva Tiiileto'a. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives http://archive.org/details/kulamanu1000brig Editor'sNote ForaslongaswehavebeenanundergraduatehereatBYU- Hawaii,therehasbeentheKulaMann. Astheschool'sforemostliterary journal,theKulaMannhasenabledstudents,facultyandcommunity memberstocometogetherasonebigartisticamalgamationtoproduce ayearlypublicationrepresentingallartisticfields. Thebookwas createdtonotonlysupplementtheCreativeWritingcurriculumhere attheuniversity,butalsoserveasademiurgicavenuefortheartistic communityandasaresult,produceabookforallaudiences,artistically inclinedorotherwise,todelightin. Withapublicationstaffcomprisedofundergraduatesranging attimesfromfewerthantentothisyear'sstaggeringtwenty-seven,the finalproductisatrueteamtriumph. Asaconglomerationofthoughts, ideas,imaginationsandviewpointsfromindividualsofallcultural andethnicbackgrounds,thegoalofthisyear'sKnlaManustaffwasto presentthewiderangeofperspectivesandinterpretationsthatcanbe shownthroughtheartisticlensesofourselectedauthorsandartists. Not onlydoweseektodisplaytheskillsandtalentsofspecificindividuals, wehopethistobearepresentationofourschoolandcommunityasa whole. Theunionofsoulsthroughliterature. Fiction,personalessayandpoetry,accompaniedwith photographsandpaintedworksfromasweepingspectrumofapplicants, weasastaffhavecompiledinthisbookthemostoutstandingworks fromthispastcalendaryear. Materialthatweasstudents,authorsand editorscherishandrelishjustastheartistsdo. Wehopethatyou,the reader,willfeelmuchthesameenjoymentasyoudelveintothis,the 2010KulaManu. Nate Stout Keola Kinghorn Keala Escalante Editors-in-Chief Table of Contents JennieAllred 55 TheEdge RyanBagley 19 KaneoheSunrise CourtneyBanks 72 Watercolor SaraBezdjian 1 FutilityofFreedomfora FatedPhilosopher LeeBungard 34 Not-SoFriendlySkies 78 MaplesoftheBlueRidgeParkway JarekBuss 28 MountainsandThings CassieChen 88 SunsetSoonForgotten Jacob Contor 10 MyDestruction 62 FlushtheFreakin'Toilet 84 Season'sReflections RichardFames 29 Autumn NataliaFerguson 3 Creation YuzoHara 42 Untitled 47 Untitled MeghanHarrison 68 Homemade AndrewHarvey 76 AroundtheBlock JohnJensen 9 OdetoBYU-Hawaii KeolaKinghorn 18 NoLonger Warm 56 Wisdom Comes With Years MichaelaDunlapLarsen 89 Untitled 67 Mail FelipeMartins 30 Wanted: OneGirlfriend toShapeMe Up KatrinaScaprelli Mulyono 61 Humble HiromiNishime 38 Sa-ya KalaniPickard 39 Ice Cream, MyLove Rachel Smith 35 Life 69 ForsaketheEvilOne LindseyRae Spencer 11 Oomph Paris Spillane 77 OilPainting Laurelle Steele 40 TheLadyandthePoet Nate Stout 20 ChesterNameant 12 Datea Comedian, You GetaJoke 54 Death JulieWalton 70 Embers LisaWebster 2 Untitled