"Another Letter From Corvallis" by Guillermo Bowie
Still, they don’t have the same level of personal investment
That I have in Corvallis, Oregon
They didn’t experience those days of turning twenty-one
As a junior in college getting to know Corvallis, Oregon
And still editor Michael Malan of Corvallis, Oregon’s Cloudbank Magazine
Sent me another copy of Cloudbank
Without mentioning the Bowie epic that I sent him almost a year ago
Something that is apparently larger and heavier than what he’s accustomed to receiving
Image Description: A brown envelope with a silver wax stamp rests on a wooden surface. Atop it is a calligraphy pen. A photo of a tree sticks out from under the envelope.
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Naturally he doesn’t understand
My decision to wait to hear from the Corvallis magazine while waiting to hear from places like The Atlantic
In all of its straightforwardness
Where I don’t know if I am imagining what The Atlantic did after receiving my Bowie epic
Michael Malan doesn’t know what Corvallis, Oregon was to a junior and senior in college
To a twenty-one-year-old that had endured the disturbing parental control (for better or for worse) that I had known
Editor Michael Malan doesn’t know
What kind of emotional impact that my Corvallis father-in-law and mother-in-law had in postponed latent early adult development
About the Author
Guillermo Bowie is a Portland, Oregon based writer. In 2025 he is published in Maryland Literary Review, Maryland’s Academy Of The Heart And Mind, Grey Sparrow Journal, Literary Yard, The Gorko Gazette, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Children, Churches, And Daddies, Book Of Matches, Fowl Feathered Review, The Argyle Literary Magazine…
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