The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present
The Lantern is the student literary magazine of Ursinus College. In the early years of the college, creative works appeared in the Ruby yearbook and as an eight-page literary supplement in The Weekly newspaper. With the inauguration of clubs, advocacy began for a literary magazine - the first issue of which appeared in 1933. The magazine, published and edited by students since its inception, was first produced several times a year. It is currently published once a year in April.
The Lantern is named after the light in Pfahler Hall's tower and symbolizes "the light shed by creative work," as stated in the inaugural issue. Throughout the run of the magazine one will find student-submitted fiction, poems, essays, book reviews, creative nonfiction and artwork.
Works featured in the magazine are copyrighted by the individual authors and artists and are not to be copied or distributed for commercial gain.
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The Lantern Vol. 60, No. 1, December 1992
Maureen Farrel, Chris Bowers, Gar Donecker, Anne Feinsod, Carolyn Cooper, Kathrin Phillips, Sona Rewari, Jim Crowder, Jeff Swain, Alan McCabe, Sarah Starr, Dawn Parsons, Christopher Kakacek, Dave Billitto, Gretchen Lacey, and Beth Rosenberg
• Bacon and Incense
• The Rubix Cube
• Recovery
• Untitled
• Star Six Nine
• Breakfast Talk
• Life as a Worker Bee
• Cabal
• One Cold Sunday Morning With Eggs
• By the End of February
• Eight Years and Five Minutes Away
• Distance
• Stuart's Gift
• Solitary Remembrance
• The Gene Thing
• Addiction -
The Lantern Vol. 59, No. 2, Summer 1992
Chris Kakacek, Katie Jones, Stephen Devlin, Kathrin Phillips, Pat Benes, Diane Orleman, William Rosenthal, Matt Hicks, Alan McCabe, Megan Mendte, Erica Starr, Alex Breckon, Bob Lane, Jonathan Cole, Julie Sommer, Abby Rosenbaum, Janet Mast, Paul Gagne, Stephanie Hicks, Tony Barber, and Gretchen Lacey
• Mr. Foley's Toboggan
• I Close the Door to the Bathroom
• Insomniac Scribbles
• And Then There Were Four
• Goodbye, Ace
• Silicone's a Manmade Matter
• The Nineteenth Hole
• Upon Visiting Manor Care
• Little Boys
• Obsessed
• Life
• Shakespearean Shakedown
• Violets and Morning Glories
• Mr. Cope Takes His Secretary to Lunch
• Winter Eyes
• Triptych
• These Hot, Humid Nights
• The Car's Place in His Heart
• Saturday Night
• The Windows of a Clean House
• An Harmonious Thunk
• Nomads
• My Watch at Mass
• Dave's Fine Print
• K.P. Duty
• Serendipity -
The Lantern Vol. 59, No. 1, December 1991
Megan Mendte, Tim Hannigan, Kathrin Phillips, Gretchen Lacey, Alan McCabe, Jennifer Blay, Mary Kormancik, Vic Starr, Bob Lane, David Day, Gar Donecker, Jason Colflesh, Christopher Heinzinger, Diane Moore, A. Judd Woytek, and Christopher Kakacek
• And I Believed Them
• Silly Rabbit
• The Sky Seemed Endless
• Here Boy
• Bill the Person
• The Crash
• Gifts of Edward Charles and Me
• Inspiration Incorporated
• The Last Morning
• Something's Fishy
• The Comforter
• The Castle Builders
• Saturday Skeleton Crew
• The Convent's Light
• In My Veins
• My Own Little Hell
• Idling
• You Know Who You Are
• Pooh
• The Pond -
The Lantern Vol. 58, No. 2, Summer 1991
Jill Persico, Gar Donecker, Michele McCabe, Kate Phillips, Elissa Long, Mary Frances Messina, Donna Cuddeback, Bob Lane, Christina Steffy, Neil Schafer, Paul Gagne, Krishni Patrick, Tony Barber, Jennifer Blay, Dhinesh Samuel, Keith Leparulo, Chris Major, Dianne Gabel, Kathleen Bowers, and Jeremy Trinidad
• We All Fall Up
• Clerical Nightmares
• The Brass Bed
• Mon Amour
• The Lady of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Forbidden Places
• Edge of the Dance
• Crystal World
• Saturday, July 12, 1978, 4:59 pm
• Of You I Think
• Just Another Statistic
• A $16 Word in a $4.99 Trashcan
• Souvenir
• The Jester
• Against a Rock
• I Wish I Were a Fish
• Too Small, Too Weak
• Somewheres in N.Y.C.
• Stuck Up
• Patterns
• I Should Tell You Now
• Me, Tommy, and Miss May
• Two Hands
• All-Natural, Organically Grown Macadamia Butter
• Irony of a Suburban Death -
The Lantern Vol. 57, No. 1, Fall 1990
Judy Evans, Kate Phillips, Jennifer Rausin, Bob Lane, Richard Galeone, Gar Donecker, Chris Major, Katherine Barrett, Theresa Richardson, Karen Lunova, Donna Cuddeback, Jennifer Blay, Alan McCabe, Neil Schafer, Debbie Kriebel, and Despina Tsouros
• Candlelight Ecstasy Tabitha
• Waffle Maker
• Thoughts From the Street Corner
• The Grip
• Eugenio's Room
• Amnesiac
• Life at the Edge
• College Love
• Dry Ice and Red Roses
• Forever a Monument
• Melanie
• Respectable Man
• Conversation With Craig
• Cheddar Cheese Trees
• The Jazz Butcher vs. The Oreos
• Sally's Home From Vacation
• So She Said -
The Lantern Vol. 56, No. 2, Spring 1990
Neil Schafer, Anthony McCurdy, Dawna Grieco, Deborah Kriebel, Laura Sassaman, Patricia L. Benes, Andrea Lynn, Janet Mast, Carolyn Elder, Kathy Barrett, Diane Orleman, Tim Driscoll, Jennifer Blay, Jerry VanKanan, Vince Leskusky, Dennis Moir, Katrina Steffy, Melissa Pollack, and Orena Herold
• Brasil
• Plastic Flowers
• Be a Pepper
• Grunge
• Handling the Responsibility
• Returning to the Forest
• How Nice
• Nooze
• Emma
• Restoration
• Chestnuts
• Frozen Moments
• Once Upon A
• Clipped Wings
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Roaches
• In Grand Central
• The Steelville Shark
• Panama 1989
• Betrayal
• Violations
• Detour -
The Lantern Vol. 56, No. 1, Fall 1989
Anthony McCurdy, Matthew Noll, Rich Galeone, Pat Benes, Melissa Pollack, Erika Rohrbach, Holly Teti, Kate Phillips, Diane Orleman, Paula Love, Joe Repko, Richard Fletcher, Wesley Lipschultz, and Pat Angelos
• Spider Silk
• Cattle Prods and Prodigies
• Hooligans
• Japan Night
• Closed Captioned for the Emotionally Impaired
• On Reading Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game"
• Breakfast Talk
• Thoughts in a Boring Bed
• Therapy
• Maria's Room
• The Poet, Unsuccessful Once Again
• Words in a Restaurant
• Their Way
• Maternity
• Hell in a Nut Shell
• Transformers
• What Would Mozart Hear?
• A Single Sestina -
The Lantern Vol. 55, No. 2, Spring 1989
Holly Teti, Liz Young, Janet Mast, Stephanie Walker, Stephen Grim, Matthew Noll, Kathy Bowers, Peter Henty, Laura Sassaman, Joe Repko, Matthew Pecic, Carol Jennings, Tim Percarpio, Denise Marino, Brad Greenwood, Robin Lentz, Erika Rohrbach, Jerry VanKanan, and Andy Rogers
• Sitting On a Summer Bench
• A Perfect Daughter I Could Never Be
• Roots And Wings
• Sensai
• The Last Three Weeks of August
• Grown Up
• What Size?
• Hidden Colors
• Victims
• I Listen for Your Voice
• Thoughts
• In Remembrance of Grandpa
• Jesus Christ, Terry
• Penance
• The Guys Are Driving High
• You and Me and Big Ginko
• The Good Ole Days of Seventh Grade
• Cycles
• Leather Upholstery
• Chicago Kris in Cairo
• Lemonade and Medicine
• My Last 7:15 Communion -
The Lantern Vol. 55, No. 1, Fall 1988
Brian L. Evans, Suzanne Kleintop, Lora L. Hart, Frank R. Moulton Jr., Laura Sassaman, John Biesecker, Matthew Noll, Erika Rohrbach, Keith Leparulo, Jerry VanKanan, Liz Young, Jeremy S. Trinidad, Rich Galeone, and Michelle L. Grande
• The Third Grade Gorilla
• Friend, I Am Not Yet A Poet
• Twisted
• The Final Journey
• Ritu Miltonis
• Hearthside
• The Ogre
• O Indestructible Everlasting
• December 1, 1988
• Our Church
• Louise
• Gazebo For Learned Women
• Hanging Mirror
• Of Football and Flashlights
• The Ragged Brown Peasant
• Judgement of the Serpent
• Sidewalk Wars
• I Guess That's Why I Went Away -
The Lantern Vol. 54, No. 2, Spring 1988
Laura Sassaman, Bill Connolly, Suzanne Kleintop, Erika Rohrback, Kathleen Walton, Rebecca E. Moore, Lisa R. Talarico, Lisa M. Williams, Vince Leskusky, Jennifer Healy, Orena Herrold, Kevin Adams, Matthew Noll, Jill Hanna, and Julie Ann Corish
• Burning the Christmas Guests
• A Song in Time
• I Ask a Question
• As If Raggedy Anne
• One Man's Escape
• Gypsy Caravan
• Apartment 14B
• The College Inferno
• Somewhere Under Manhattan
• Trumped
• Sunday
• In Quest of Creativity
• Imperfect Healing
• The Game
• The Hunger
• Peanuts on the Beach
• Battlefield Prom
• Confessions of the Untrained Eye
• Animal Attraction
• Street Lamps
• Hey, Old Man
• In Search of Self-Actualization
• Cousin Joe Bob's First Visit to Pulsations -
The Lantern Vol. 54, No. 1, Fall 1987
Jennifer Healy, David Burgess, Coleen Casciano, Lisa R. Talarico, Matthew Noll, Laura Sassaman, Joe Roberts, Karen L. Miller, Rebecca Moore, Peg Occhiolini, Adrienne M. Otis, Debra L. Ritter, Joseph Matassino, Craig DiLouie, and Matt Weintraub
• Darkside
• Reflections on a Subway Ride
• Demand for Love
• Music Man
• Something Wild
• The Nice Guy's Story
• The Picnic
• Internalize
• Days When You Feel Like Wonder Bread
• II
• A Tear
• In Pursuit of Beauty
• A Walk Down Sycamore Lane
• A Wish
• Sins of Omission
• Pessimism
• And the Sky Cracked
• The Clock Strikes
• Invincible -
The Lantern Vol. 53, No. 2, Spring 1987
Anthony Fiore, Lisa R. Talarico, Debra Ritter, Beth Riccio, Matthew Noll, Denise Marino, Maria D'Arcangelo, Angela M. Salas, Andrea Power, Rebecca Moore, Beth Long, Erika Rohrbach, Julie Ann Corish, Joel Davies, Karen Singhofen, Eric Chandlee Wilson, and Frank R. Moulton Jr.
• The One
• Homecoming-1946
• Puff
• Victory
• The Prelude
• Playtime
• There's a Killer in My Heart
• Who is Keats?
• Relationships
• It's OK
• Rasping
• Wearers of Underwear
• Conjecture
• Look Her in the Eye
• Counterpoint
• When the Air is Biting
• A Stream of Consciousness
• Bach's Concerto in E
• Tomorrow Morn
• Ruminations on Bob Dylan
• Last Night a Dream
• Stephen
• A Baseball Story
• I Am Sorry
• And Baby Makes Two
• Next on Mr. Steinbeck's Itinerary
• Upon Visiting the Nursing Home
• Taps for Ralph
• Yes, I Believe
• The Morning After
• Conversation
• Dear Man
• Autumn Leaves -
The Lantern Vol. 53, No. 1, Fall 1986
Erika Rohrbach, Vince Leskusky, Rebecca Moore, Lisa R. Talarico, Erin Meredith, Greg Fraser, Diane Grace Fries, Beth Henderson, Michelle Grande, Beth Riccio, Matthew Darrin, Laura Sassaman, Joel Davies, Beth Long, Bill Connolly, Betsy Rosen, Debra L. Ritter, and Jerry Van Kannan
• Living In-Sanity
• Sentence of Dawn
• Addict
• Where Do They Come From?
• Midnight Hags Astride
• Escape
• Here I Sit
• A Minor Key
• To Picasso's Old Guitarist
• Nothing More
• Love or Futility
• A Few Inches
• My Only Gift
• Reserved
• A Message to a Disillusioned Friend
• Doing it the Hard Way
• The Wall
• A Look Ahead at a Look Behind
• Fantasy Secret
• Lisa
• Caesar's Last Words
• There's a Grouse in My House
• If You Want Me
• The Education of a Samaritan
• Death of Illusion
• I Walked and Pondered
• A Woman Walked Past Him and He Smiled
• Betrayal
• Blindness
• Innocence Unveiled
• Amanda -
The Lantern Vol. 52, No. 2, Spring 1986
Sally Stricker, Bill Connolly, Lisa R. Talarico, Craig DiLouie, Beth A. Long, Eric Chandlee Wilson, Beth Henderson, Thomas F.V. Prisco, Stephen Pote, Geoffrey Allen, Jennifer Healy, Rebecca Moore, Beth Riccio, Julie Ann Corish, Denise Kathryn Wayne, Debra L. Ritter, Frank R. Moulton Jr., Laura A. Kiefer, Sally Umble, Anthony Fiore, Angela M. Salas, and Timothy S. Weible
• The Cartoonist
• Balance
• Haiku
• Moment of Truth
• There Was a Man
• Mad Song / Cassandra's Song
• Part I - The Descent
• Political Thought
• Beast
• Questions Yet Unanswered
• Aphrodite: A Lover's Lament
• The Most Limber Boy
• Style And
• Thoughts From My Confusion
• Andy
• Momma Wake Up
• In The Suburbs
• Tommy
• When the Phone Rings
• There's Something Soothing
• Starting Over
• A Day in the Life of a Flower
• Pretension
• It Seems Like So Long Ago
• I Walk Along
• Insignificant Man
• Variations on a Latin Theme
• The Riddle
• Roll the Dice - Its Your Turn
• This Is Your Day
• One Night Stand
• Make My Day
• You Really Can't Expect
• Medusa
• Don't Think
• Broken Chain
• Life...A Hammock?
• To My Friend
• Ode On a Grecian Keg -
The Lantern Vol. 52, No. 1, Fall 1985
Sally Stricker, Alison J. Graf, Geoffrey Allen, Alfred L. Creager, Christopher Harbach, Debra Ritter, Timothy S. Weible, Rebecca Moore, Stephen Pote, Jennifer Healy, Samuel C. Conway, Beth Henderson, Trisha Carvelli, Sue Darley, Angela M. Salas, Craig DiLouie, Beth Riccio, Kevin Trayner, and Bill Connolly
• Nudes
• Orion
• Fragments of an Epic
• Sunrise
• The Planting Season
• Nursing Home
• Hope Chest
• Childhood Swing
• Relationships
• Elroy, Leopold, and Max
• Urban Dragon
• The Farmer's Wife
• A Ballad of Two Lovers
• Betrayal
• Choices
• Letting Go
• Emergence of a Butterfly
• Poem for Every Man
• Friction
• Genesis
• All's Well
• The Willow Tree
• White Wasteland
• Moe's Happy Christmas
• Rare Bird
• Carnival -
The Lantern Vol. 51, No. 2, Spring 1985
Beth A. Long, Jennifer Healy, Eric Chandler Wilson, Sally Stricker, Timothy S. Weible, Angela M. Salas, Diane Grace Fries, Robert F. Kozel, Joseph F. Pirro, Michael Marcon, Alison Graf, Lisa Talarico, Susan M. Reilly, Debra Ritter, Walter S. Keehn, Stephen C. Pote, and Bill Connolly
• Electric Pink
• Derby Day
• Conversation
• Seasons of Sonnets
• Long After Killing Us
• Haunting Memory
• Sacrifice
• Is This Positive Enough?
• My Teddy Bear
• A Gentleman of Ten
• Hartman Center
• Yesterday's Child
• Mors Pueris
• Momentary Reflections
• Children Sleeping
• There's No Place Like Home
• I Set My Pleasures Adrift
• The Beer Can
• Fragments of an Epic
• Actaeon
• She Sleeps
• Chicago
• Death Light
• Tea With Louise
• Balance
• The Rivers
• Chapel
• The Hour of Prayer
• Une Fille / Une Femme
• A One-Way Mirror
• Nonconformity
• Cada Noche, Lloro
• Reflections on an Empty House Down the Street
• Evening Melancholy
• Abandoned Road
• Big Boy
• Baby Brothers
• Metro Oscuro
• Chuchoter -
The Lantern Vol. 51, No. 1, Fall 1984
Joseph F. Pirro, Richard P. Richter, Sara D. Seese, Lisa Talarico, Jeff Jacobson, Diane Grace Fries, Roxolana Telepko, Susan Reilly, Ted Galena, Angela M. Salas, Timothy S. Weible, Beth A. Long, Joanne E. Kohler, and Matt Fagan
• Sky Eyes
• Flowerwait
• Haiku
• Sunwatch
• Epitaph of A Tale
• How Do You Tell A Child
• Vineyard Wind
• By The Sea
• The Wanderer
• In Back of the Real Supermarket in Collegeville
• Mitosis
• Smoke Dreams
• On Humankind Today - A Message
• Dragon
• The Lull
• Finale
• The Sun
• Three Steps in Life
• Seaside
• To Mark
• To Father
• Yesterday - Today
• The Stars
• The Journey
• Our Shared Experience, Miles Away
• Coming Home
• Blossom
• Life is the Teacher
• Midnight Stroll in February
• Eyes (Karen's Poem)
• Your Love
• Same Welcome as Odysseus
• Europa
• Sinn Fein
• Idle Dreams
• I Can Take A Hint
• In Retrospect
• Rest
• China and Porcelain are One in the Same
• Moment -
The Lantern Vol. 50, No. 2, Spring 1984
Mark W. Wingel, Ellen M. Walsh, Kenneth C. Taylor, Andrew P. Wack, Angela L. Russek, Trisha L. Carvelli, Ronald J. Carter, Diane Grace Fries, Elizabeth P. Harp, Brian E. Kelley, Jacqueline Crahalla, Matt Fagan, Jerome F. Frasier III, Walter S. Keehn, Thomas G. Egner, Sara D. Seese, Jeremy Landersfield, Timothy S. Weible, Michael Macron, Rosemary J. Wuenschel, Dorene M. Pasekoff, Beth A. Long, and Tom Feeney
• The Storm
• Je ne sais pas
• The Ghetious Blastious
• An Empty Cradle
• The Playing Hands
• Battle Hymn
• A Limerick
• Parting Thoughts
• The River
• Miss You
• De la Tristeza
• Two So Special
• Time of the Unicorn
• The Absence
• Thru The Breeze
• Is the World Really a Round Ball?
• Brother
• To Michael
• Gravity
• Refuge
• Der Witwer
• Plastic Flowers Never Die
• Book on the Shelf -
The Lantern Vol. 50, No. 1, Fall 1983
Diane Grace Fries, Timothy S. Weible, Joanne E. Kohler, Beth A. Long, Jonathan A. Nigrine, Jerome F. Frasier III, Nancy L. Allen, Sara D. Seese, David T. Redstone, Thomas G. Egner, Catherine R. Benedict, Dorene M. Pasekoff, and Walter S. Keehn
• Reaching for My Dream
• All Hail
• Appreciation
• Egotism
• Me (Dedicated to...)
• Butterfly
• Balloon and Bird
• Never Again
• Mother
• The Deaf Ears
• Healing
• Distress
• Silent Death
• Whose Reality Is It Anyway?
• To Helen
• Luna Llena y Soledad
• Saved
• Jenny
• Slope
• A Poem in C Minor
• A Birth of Proficiency
• The Traveling Man
• Competing With the Sea
• To R.
• The Child
• And Besides
• An Actress' Demise
• A Loving Tribute to Francis
• Rapunzel
• Memories -
The Lantern Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 1983
Lucinda Iezzi, Joanne E. Kohler, Timothy B. Raithel, Timothy S. Weible, Marjorie L. Angstadt, Sara D. Seese, Christopher F. Godor, Dorene M. Pasekoff, Walter S. Keehn, Jonathan A. Nigrine, Barbara A. Foley, Elizabeth M. Osciak, and Eugene H. Miller
• Time
• The Lantern, 1933-1983
• The Battle
• Lady Number 9
• That First Night
• Wavering
• If I Dared
• The Hack
• The Beauty of a Rose
• H2O
• The Island
• Library
• Unicorns
• Prisoner of Myrin
• How The Universe Was Won
• On Success
• I, The Poet -
The Lantern Vol. 49, No. 1, Fall 1982
Diane Newell, Regina Ciritella, Mark Wingel, Shirley Brynan, Shannon Emery, Karen Dalzell, Christi Lynne, Stephen C. Arnold, Dorene M. Pasekoff, Joanne Kohler, Stephen C. Woodward, Steve Miller, and Laura Lee
• The Dormant Tree
• Les Maitres des mots...
• The Bartender
• Time
• Small Silent Creatures
• Appreciation de la vie
• Mon Seigneur, Mon Ami
• In Gratitude
• Cathedral
• Child
• Grow Old With Me
• To Keep The Land
• Lesetta
• No Answer
• The Hunt
• You Came to Me
• A Day in the Life of a Thought
• Revenge
• The Dance
• Unclaimed
• Where e'er There Be a Reason
• Pour le coin
• Thinking of You
• You Were The One -
The Lantern Vol. 48, No. 2, May 1982
Charles Brynan, Stephen Arnold, Steve Martino, Sandy Smith, Dorene Pasekoff, Alan Prague, Inge Karlberg, Jean Morrison, Theresa A. Waldspurger, Regina Ciritella, and Barbara A. Foley
• Atonement to the Clown
• 5 A.M.
• Les Moulins a Vent
• Isn't It a Bitter Cold
• Eyes That Want
• I Am a Life Saver
• The Death of Chicken Little
• The Secret
• In a Little Jungle
• Night
• From Foundlings
• Night Was My Friend
• The Librarian of Langden Hall
• The Heart
• Daybreak
• City Song
• Chance
• Cotton Panels
• To Phlebas
• Attraction
• Fall
• Coming Home
• June
• Breaking Free
• Mother
• Ice Tree
• Return from Nhatrang
• What It All Comes Down To
• To Benjamin
• The Light
• Piano Practice
• Mother's Song to Her Son
• Sister's Song
• Shopping
• Grandfather
• Closing Statement
• Dreaming
• Another Sunset
• Clear, Cold and Crystal
• Jog!!!
• Empty Nights -
The Lantern Vol. 48, No. 1, December 1981
Lori W. Wilson, Mary Alice Cullinan, Duncan C. Atkins, Steve Martino, Richard P. Richter, Dorene M. Pasekoff, Stephen Arnold, Jean Morrison, and Alison P. Barrett
• While Sipping Scotch and Soda
• I Remember
• The Apology
• Growing
• It Seems Like Time Has Stood Still
• Zimmerman Encounters Pessimism
• Deliverer
• Genus Sublime
• Yours, Still
• The Rising Sun
• Person, Valley, Things
• It Lay Motionless
• Les Parques
• Opportunity
• The Park - I, II
• Another Dimension
• Grand Mal
• Moments Later
• Look Into A Pond
• Trust and Dependency
• From Foundlings
• Drought
• Girl at Fence
• Campus
• Clocking Time
• A Letter From Clarence
• When Flat Lines
• Every Now and Then
• Loneliness
• Emotion No. 2
• You're Walking
• Battle Cries
• The Ultimate Feudal Lord
• Monologue From A Farther Room -
The Lantern Vol. 47, No. 2, May 1981
Theresa A. Waldspurger, Heinrich Wichemann, Raymond D. Snyder, Jennifer Bassett, Jean Morrison, John Mulvey, Steve Martino, Diane Newell, Christopher Poe, Duncan C. Atkins, Robert Pfeiffer, Angela Morrison, and Xenia Constantine Politis
• Festival
• Ode to Old Tom
• Living Room
• Writing a Poem
• Mission Impossible
• The Hinge is Oiled
• The Potter's Field at Malvern
• Points of Time
• Attempted Autonomy
• My Love
• Love, not War
• Death Comes Quickly
• You Can't Always Get What You Don't Really Want
• You See (Johnny's Tale): An Elegy
• Sanguine Hopes