The Diamond Line

The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Literary Magazine

The Art of Getting to Know Someone

By Elise Lusk   There’s frost on the window he’s leaning against.  I watch the moonlight weave through the cracks in the trees-  how the light traces the outline of his back  but leaves him black and blank.    I ask the outline for a paintbrush   to fill in the...

Love Bug Bite

By Macklin Luke   When I say that   the color of a frozen moment  muddies the hue of our reticent together  or that  a song says Venus imploded from the  gastric fumes of marital warming  What I mean to say is  her name, still branded behind my ear,  the nakedless...

If I Ran Away to New Mexico

By Claire Hutchinson   the highway would slide like black silk under my wheels,  my front bumper with five o’clock shadow from the bugs.  i’d stop at a single-pump gas station, leave my car while it’s refueling,  and wander toward the red soil horizon.  the dust...

The Lady Who Lived in a House

By Julie Gunsaulis   There was an old lady who lived in a house, and many a time, I sat on her couch.    I drank her black coffee when I was three.   It reminds me of her now, so I prefer tea.  She made blueberry pancakes on her little white stove  And...

My Mother’s Beagle

By Jennie Orlando   Long weeks slither through the road   As I drive over a steep hill   To a house in Bella Vista   With green bushes suffering   November’s persistent winds.   Evening stars glare from the sky   As I step out of the Subaru   And Logan, my...

Red Wine

By Isabella Wisinger For Madison   Glass clinks in the backseat as we roll to a stop at the waterfront.   June is the slowest summer month, so we’ve already spent a thousand nights together  With our friends who wait on the gazebo, glowing under fairy lights.  ...