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The Agora Volume 2, 2012 Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization The Agora Volume 2, 2012 Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization 1 PLATO Mission PLATO is a participatory, member-led, learning-in-retirement organization committed to continually developing and promoting intellectual and cultural enrichment opportunities for its members in association with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Agora Mission The Agora is a juried publication of PLATO, the Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization associated with the University of Wisconsin– Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies. The journal seeks to share the creative talents of its members by publishing their literary and artistic contributions in a periodic volume of original works, including poetry, short fiction, nonfiction and pictorial and photographic art. Of particular interest is material that has a distinct point of view and is inspired by broadly humanistic values and the liberal arts tradition. Acknowledgements The Editorial Board of The Agora wishes to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of UW-Madison Continuing Studies, specifically, Wendy Kerr, Christina Finet and Professor Barry Orton. We wish also to acknowledge the support and cooperation of the PLATO Board of Directors. The Editorial Board also thanks the reviewers who assisted in the selection of the material for Volume 2. 2 The Agora Volume 2, 2012 Editor-in-Chief Vaunceil Kruse Managing Editor Edna Canfield Editorial Board Lauren Blough Ellen Last Phil Paulson Winifred Batson, Fiction Irv Klibaner, Nonfiction Peter Finch, Poetry Fred Ross, Poetry Design Christina Finet Cont. Studies Liaison Wendy Kerr The Agora is a juried literary magazine published annu- ally by PLATO, Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization, with funding and staff support from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Studies. © 2012 PLATO, Participatory Learning and Teaching Organization 3 Dedication The Agora Volume 2 is dedicated to Wendy Kerr, Christina Finet and all of the magazine’s contributors whose expertise, effort and commitment to the arts make this publication possible. 4 Contents artwork Ginnie McCarthy Cherokee Circles 8 nonfiction Norman Leer At the Blue Note 9 poem Daryl Sherman Dead Winter 12 fiction Edna Canfield Sunken Treasure 13 nonfiction Rita Hack Rausch The 1970 Battle of Midway 14 artwork Daryl Sherman Bird of Paradise Abstraction 15 nonfiction Claudia Melrose The Lightning of Courage 16 poem Sparrow Senty Old, Old Man 20 nonfiction Frank Springer Me and the Dalai Lama 21 nonfiction Grethe Brix-J. Leer Far’s Birthday Fest 23 artwork Ginnie McCarthy Troy Gardens Still Life #3 26 fiction David Hyson Mediquette 27 fiction Ken Richardson The Boy and the Veteran 29 artwork Ellen Maurer Just Fishin’ 31 5 poem Joanne Lee Storlie Points of View 32 nonfiction Kathy DiGiuseppe Gomes The Bracelet 34 poem Lorna Kniaz Mothers Are Forever 36 nonfiction Ellen Maurer The Tractor War 37 artwork John Hoffman County Fair 39 nonfiction Julie Pretell The Pay-Back Dinner 40 nonfiction Wil Selbrede The Sewing Box 43 poem Bert Adams Kenyan Haiku 45 artwork Gail McCoy Blue Energy 46 poem David Berger Lifting Mist 47 fiction Joanne Lee Storlie Love Affair With Kirby 48 fiction Marvin T. Beatty Cold Secret 50 artwork Daryl Sherman Leaves and Light 55 poem Myrna Williamson What the Leaf Doesn’t Know 56 fiction Sparrow Senty Let’s Talk Scirocco 58 6 artwork Gail McCoy July Morning 60 nonfiction David Lewke Country School 61 nonfiction Evelyn Rueckert Water 64 artwork Sandra Haspl Resilience 66 nonfiction George Faunce The Last Thing She Said 67 poem Norman Leer Watching a Norwegian Church on CNN after the Killings 69 artwork Susan Hoffman Beekeeper 70 nonfiction April Hoffman Dad and Darwin 71 artwork April Hoffman Tale Bone 74 poem Ken Richardson An Old Fish Story 75 poem Judith Zukerman Chebeague Island 76 Contributors 77 Ordering Information inside back cover artwork Ken Richardson Red-Tailed Hawk cover art 7 Cherokee Circles, by Ginnie McCarthy 8
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