espritspring2006

Contents                                 
Esprit Home
Esprit Fall 2006 Home
Cover Photo
Awards
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Submission Information

a yellow wash overwhelms
Reclamation
Accidents
Seagull
Computer Dreams
Pete and Me
Traduction
Exasperations
Crack
The Budding Cubist
Motion
Untitled
A Doctrine of Recollection
The Lincoln Tunnel
Soft Spot for Strays
Zeugma
Here's Johnny
Fidelity Mates with a Deaf
                Spouse
Capable of Being
Television Reality
Suicide
Reminiscing as Anti-Depressant
After Dinner at McDonald's
Untitled
The Speaker's Last Thoughts
Cityscape – Scranton, PA

Front Cover:
    Untitled
Inside Front Cover:
    Venerable Space - C.S.
                Lewis's Desk
Inside Back Cover:
    Hugs and Kisses
Back Cover:
    Breakfast

Return to:
[ Esprit Home ]
[ English Home ]
[ Scranton Home ]
   

Fidelity Mates with a Deaf Spouse

 

Judith A. Hicks

 

Robert Shipley, Company Sergeant, Co. C,
8th New York Vol. Cavalry
and son of an abolitionist,
shrank like a dried-up sponge in Andersonville.
He had real bad luck—captured after a Union
victory—he just crossed into
the wrong trail after Gettysburg, that's all.
Shipley was a big man.
He went into the camp at over 200 pounds,
and was only 68 at release.

Like they wrote, Georgia was hell. thousands
died from the secessionist water
and the rest prayed for death.
A clean spring rose up.
The men lived.

 

  

  Copyright by The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510.

Submissions and inquiries:

Esprit
Room 221
McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts
Scranton, PA 18510
(570) 941-4343

If you have questions or comments regarding this page, please contact Lynn Springer, Department of English.

Page last updated: Monday, 12. June 2006