Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Honors Theses Lee Honors College 12-13-2010 Stopping for Death: Plays, Poetry, and Prose Sally Johnson Western Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses Part of the Playwriting Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Johnson, Sally, "Stopping for Death: Plays, Poetry, and Prose" (2010). Honors Theses. 1854. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/1854 This Honors Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Lee Honors College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Stopping for Death: Plays, Poetry, and Prose By: Sally Johnson Western Michigan University Lee Honors College Thesis December 13in,th 2010 Contents Mealworm World 5 Second of Six First Communions 6 Flood 7 While Waiting for Bus 305-A in the Early Morning, Wearing a Rain Jacket and Pigtails Right After My Mother Reminds Me Not to Judge Books 8 Defenses Animals Use 9 Why It Is So Loud 17 Oh, Holy Night 18 Train Sonnet 19 Sonnet of Sound 20 The Aunts Go Marching 21 How Bad It Is 43 Nothing Good 44 This is What Happened 45 Reaching Zero 46 Holy Pink Pagoda 47 Make Believe 55 Our Father, Who Art 56 Borne 57 A Mother's Pearls: Sestina 58 Over My Head 59 Illumination 71 Neighbor Sestina 72 Nesting 73 Defining Metaphor 74 The Rocks We Throw 75 Mealworm World Second of Six First Communions My father held me over the sink.