From Melina Blank, literary editor: Porchswing: According to Google, it's "a swing on a porch usually made of wood leaving space for two people to sit and swing." To Orpheus, it is the warm breath of familiarity that hums in one's soul. The soul knows just about everything that inspires it, transfixes it, guides it. Home, a word we make sense of in terms of physical place, is not so definitively tangible. Instead, what inspires and transfixes and guides us could very well be a person, a song, a belief, a feeling.
If I didn't know any better, I would say this is why we create art. Through any artistic medium, we give a feeling a face, a situation some eyes, an emotion a mouth. We plant four walls and a roof over ambiguities; we speak our own languages and they are somehow understood.
Date Created
Spring 4-2025
Subject
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing
Digital Humanities
Fine Arts
Photography
Poetry
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Note: The volume and issue numbering of Orpheus has been inconsistent over the decades it was published. Some issues did not contain dates, so library staff attempted to determine dates of publication through the context of the content. If you have more reliable information on the date of publication for this issue, please email ecommons@udayton.edu. The numbers assigned to this issue are: Vol. 124.
