Issue 1

The First National Edition of The Tributary

We welcome you to the first ever national edition of The Tributary. Authors and poets from all over the country allowed us to weave together their works into an iridescent tapestry. It is one that we here at The Tributary are proud to present to you. From the forests of Vermont to the Valleys of…

Tributary 2022

It is finally here! Submissions like rain mixed into a puddle, dripped into a stream, formed this year’s issue of Lycoming College’s Tributary. Rather than parse that expansive literary-sky, find your favorite (or soon-to-be-favorites) here in our collection of works. We thank you for your patronage and urge you to support our journal and future…

Red Summer 

Sarah Lanphear  There’s an etching in the southern magnolia  on the corner of Fourth and Mae, a scar   hidden by flowers, sticks, and leaves  on a branch just low enough,  just within reach.  The cut buried  by men who know how to hide  when they need to, who know   to work by night. White  hoods…

Residuum 

Rylee Delaney  Desolation   follows a path  of pickle jars   past teacup  vistas of watercolor  clarity,  through rum   bottle forests,   empty,   to one too many  towels, soiled  and vacant,   again. 

I am 

Rylee Delaney  They, myself  not excluded, thought:  but surely I am     None,   not one  are the “other”     The hurricanes, the  earthquakes, several feet  from the other     All lusting,  a storming desire to  be the “other”     Together, a collective  petrified, shy, shying  from the other     Knowing, it’s possible,  impossible, to  be…

The Riverwalk 

Sohini Mukherjee  As the sun set by the Susquehanna riverwalk,   the sky took a shade of orange, lively   yet soul-soothing. The hills, newly clad   in emerald, ripple like the sun rays   on my caramel skin, whistling as I walk.   The river’s wind pushes into my brown hair, sends me  into a labyrinth of my fondest…

Nightmares 

August Wampole  I had a nightmare.  (Not unusual, but it left me in a haze)  God gave me His power, said He lost care  For humanity. Left me in a daze  And then he was gone.  And I was alone with the world. 

Who’s The Bastard Now?  

Caleb Hipple  1. A Hippie Fucks My Mom, 2000  “Tune in, Turn on and Drop out” (his favorite quote on Facebook)  Robbie, my absent creator, holds a breath—   he imagines instead her lover’s puffed chest, quakes   knowingly, blows on plump dandelions, unsheathes   in her stretching garden. Hidden, a snake   slides from…

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