Branches Volume Twenty-Three
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Branches volume twenty-three Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute 2855 Hickory Boulevard Hudson, North Carolina 28638 828.726.2200 • 828.297.3811 www.cccti.edu CCC TI is an equal opportunity educator employer Yaakov Jacob Smith The Typewriter Ink and Wax Acknowledgements Art Editors Laura Aultman Alison Beard Thomas Thielemann Literary Editors eather Barnett Jessica Chapman DeAnna Chester Production Director Ron Wilson Special Thanks: Justin Butler Amber Jacks Edward Terry Funding and other support for Branches was provided by the CCC&TI Foundation, the College Transfer Division and the Department of Fine Arts, umanities, Social Sciences, and Physical Education. To view previous editions of Branches or to find out more information about submitting works of art or literature to the 24th edition of Branches, please visit our website at www.cccti.edu/branches. Table of Contents Oh, That Face ............................................Deanna Kilby................................Frontispiece Totem ..........................................................K.J. Maj ........................................................1 Untitled ......................................................Soren Stanback ..............................................2 Untitled ......................................................Soren Stanback ..............................................2 Under the Stars............................................Stacey Price....................................................3 Flower ........................................................Jaden Daly ....................................................6 Untitled ......................................................Jacob Peek ....................................................6 Beat ............................................................K.J. Maj ........................................................7 Untitled ......................................................Bailey Dalton ................................................8 Looking Forward ........................................Chelsea Pritchard ..........................................8 attie is er Given Name ..........................Amy Millette ................................................9 Laundry in the Dark....................................Jessica Pressley ............................................10 Sunrise ........................................................Jaden Daly ..................................................10 Impossible Items..........................................L.B. Sedlacek ..............................................11 Charlotte in Wonderland ............................Amy Millette ..............................................12 The Call ......................................................Chloe Powell ..............................................14 Superiority Complex ..................................Soren Stanback ............................................14 Princess ......................................................Peter Morris ................................................15 A Circus Inside My Mind............................Shelby Abernathy ........................................16 Teacher........................................................Prairie Moon Dalton ..................................16 Favorite oliday ........................................ annah Clark..............................................17 The Watcher of Worlds ..............................Julina Weiss ................................................18 Other ..........................................................Jalen Daly....................................................18 Streetwise ....................................................Peter Morris ................................................19 Expression ..................................................Alexander Laws ..........................................20 mon frére .................................................... annah Curtis ............................................20 Revenge ......................................................Abigail Schmidt ..........................................21 Flowering Bush............................................Chelsea Pritchard ........................................24 Landscape ..................................................Logan Livingston ........................................24 Love Poem to Fog ......................................K.J. Maj ......................................................25 Yellow ........................................................Kaitlyn Cox ................................................26 Drug Addiction ..........................................MacKenzie Norris ......................................26 Old Lady Link ............................................Amy Millette ..............................................27 appy Camper............................................ annah Curtis ............................................28 Johnny Doughboy ......................................Shelby Abernathy ........................................28 Red Rum ....................................................Bethany Richards ........................................29 Noah Double Exposure ..............................Alexander Laws ..........................................30 Path ............................................................Patrick ollingsworth ................................30 Coquina Angel ............................................Amy Tilly ....................................................31 Sunny Day ..................................................Jessica Pressley ............................................32 New Afternoon ..........................................Melvin Nathaniel Greene ............................32 Forever Inked ..............................................L.B. Sedlacek ..............................................33 Getting Sucked In........................................Melvin Nathaniel Greene ............................34 oly Mother ..............................................Jaden Daly ..................................................34 As I old the Line: Inside the Trenches of World War I ......Melvin Nathaniel Greene ............................35 Sunset Plate ................................................Madison Welten ..........................................36 Untitled ......................................................Abigail McDannold ....................................36 Untitled ......................................................Kenneth McGill ..........................................36 Kenny..........................................................Aleksandra Janas ........................................37 Persephone ..................................................Kaitlyn Cox ................................................37 Persephone ..................................................Julina Weiss ................................................38 Untitled ...................................................... annah McLeod ........................................38 Untitled ......................................................Kenneth McGill ..........................................38 MLK Jr. ...................................................... olly Korta ........................Inside Back Cover Deanna Kilby Oh, That Face Acrylic Awarded First Place (2-D Category) Totem By K.J. Maj This poem was awarded first place by the literary editors of Branches. Caw! Caw! Caw! Caw! Caw! we each cawed out a letter of her name she knows we make tiny tools from tree branches scrape out the fruit in nuts such a delicacy; feed our young she knows our intelligence that we count communicate she knows we banquet in the middle of the road, cleaning up the environment while we enjoy a fantastic tasty meal she knows we are beautiful call us crows, ravens, magpies, rooks we dance the Joy of Life our Spirits fly and soar we congregate and sing flap our sleek black feathers she knows we will watch over her wherever she goes because, one day, we saw her watching us standing near us not shooing us away because she was reverent as we stood in a circle, seven of us, on a lawn looking down at one of our dead she understood she’s one of us 1 Soren Stanback Untitled Alabaster Awarded First Place (3-D Category) Soren Stanbackt Untitled Alabaster Under the Stars By Stacey Price This prose work was awarded first place by the literary editors of Branches. There are many, factors throughout my life, that have contributed to who I am. The paths I’ve followed, the choices I’ve made, and the goals I’ve set are just a few pieces of my life that have been influenced in one way or another by the same things that influence most all of us. I’ve spent much time in reflection, analyzing myself, trying to understand how I ended up in the places I’ve been, the places I am now, and determining where I want to be and how I might get there. I’ve realized two certain conclusions; one is that certainty is irrational, and the other is that life maintains a tragic balance. Because of that, we seldom appreciate what we have until it’s gone. This well-known sentiment is perhaps one of the most influential aspects of my life. I was born on the night of the Perseid Meteor Shower to my teenage parents, Kenneth and Lilly; my brother, Timmy, was born three years later. My parents were nearly clueless of how to raise children, but they were kind to us, and they loved us and each other.