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EXPRESSIONS 1989 • 30th Anniversary • 2019 ALLEGANY COLLEGE ==of MARYLAND== EXPRESSIONS 1989 • 30th Anniversary • 2019 ALLEGANY COLLEGE of MARYLAND TABLE OF CONTENTS 12401 Willowbrook Road, SE | Cumberland, MD 21502-2596 | www allegany edu Student Editor’s Introduction 5 Untitled | Kaitlyn T Elliott 67 EXPRESSIONS 2019 Derek Jamison Claire Sullivan ADVISORS Artwork & Photography Simplicity | Darius R Latson 72 CONTRIBUTORS Abria Lantz Amanda Summy Art/Humanities Faculty Untitled | Carol Lusk 6 Untitled | Alex Hay 77 Michael (Tony) Ballas Darius R Latson Connor Tressler John Bone Untitled | Conner Tressler 10 Plains Feast | James (Joe) J Brawn 81 Kwinn A Brady Shawna Layton David Tuggle Prof Robyn L Price Untitled | Megan Ruby 14 Essays, Fiction & Poetry James (Joe) J Brawn Carol Lusk Esper White Jared Ritchey Untitled | Megan Ruby 21 Beauty | Carol Lusk 7 Zoe Browell Isabella Lusk Abby Wood Adjunct Suzanne Stultz Maryilyn Monroe | Madison Hutter 25 West and North | Esper White 9 Benjamin Bush Jacob Minnick FACULTY CO-EDITORS EDITORIAL BOARD Line of Boats in the Fog | Michael (Tony) Ballas 28 Change Is Pain, Pain Is Growth: Pushing Through A Breakup Cameron Mack Crouse Madison Mock Dr Ronald Jenkins Antonio Cummings Tabi Myers Marsha Clauson, Kathy Condor, Butterfy on Finger | Tabi Myers 33 Antonio Cummings 11 Dr Tino Wilfong Sandi Foreman, Josh Getz, Orange with Envy | Kwinn A Brady 38 Trying to Figure the Movement of the Pieces | Jacob Minnick 12 2 Levi Demers Kristina Nolan 3 Miranda Eckenrode Karissa Pumphrey ASSISTANT EDITOR FOR POETRY Jim House, Wendy Knopsnider, Blackwater River WV | Vin Foy 39 Player One | Jacob Minnick 12 Janna Lee, Kim Mouse, Untitled | Kaitlyn T Elliott 40 The Mystery of the Duchess’ Murder | Madison Mock 15 Kaitlyn T Elliott Jonas Rock Heather Greise Vin Foy Megan Ruby Josie Harpole, Alicia Phillips, The Taking Tree | James (Joe) J Brawn 41 Step of the Canter | Isabella Lusk 20 STUDENT EDITOR Madison Green Michael Smith Shannon Redman, Roberta See, Storm Over Lone Tree | Michael (Tony) Ballas 42 Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” | Amanda Summy 22 Alex Hay Sydni Smith David Whitaker and Nick Taylor Recreation of the Lovers by René Magritte | Kwinn A Brady 42 Little Demons | Sydni Smith 26 Madison Hutter Anna Grace Steele Christmas Raindrop | Michael (Tony) Ballas 43 Die Being You | Michael Smith 29 Sunfower | Abria Lantz 44 Skipping Rocks | Michael Smith 29 ARTWORK FEATURED ON ARTWORK FEATURED ON FRONT COVER: BACK COVER: True Blue | Madison Hutter 45 Hope from the Shadows | Levi Demers 31 “Evening at the Lake” by Vin Foy “Snowy Light” by Vin Foy Bust Number 12 | James (Joe) J Brawn 50 Hypocrites All! Micky Mouse, Big Business, and the Posse Untitled | Laitlyn T Elliott 60 Derek Jamison 34 A New Era (Trump’s Inauguration) | Cameron Mack Crouse 63 The Flower’s Question | Kristina Nolan 46 Printed by Morgantown Printing & Binding | Spring Semester 2019 © 2019 2019 | EXPRESSIONS | 30th Anniversary Essays, Fiction, Poetry & Artwork STUDENT EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Pink Pepper Spray | Zoe Browell 47 A Rich Life Lived Alone | Madison Green 48 Firstly, I would like to congratulate everyone who has submitted a about life, and they share with us a piece of themselves that will live on Black Cofee | Anna Grace Steele 51 piece to this year’s edition of Expressions. This year’s line of art and literary through their works long after they have moved on You’re Not You When You’re Old or Female: Ageism and Sexism in pieces have yet again ceased to amaze not just me, but all those involved The point I’m trying to get across is that anyone who reacts to the works Snickers’ Most Popular Campaign | Karissa Pumphrey 52 Outcasts | Jonas Rock 61 in creating this literary, artistic, and award-winning publication The of these artists and authors experiences them diferently You as the reader G for Gratuitousness | Jonas Rock 62 Faculty Editor and I want to congratulate everyone for the fact that the time are tasked not with just responding to the pieces but trying to make sense I, Gun | Cameron M Crouse 64 and efort in the creation of all of these great pieces of work has paid of of it all, to try and make meaning of it through yourself We all explore our Difcult Decisions | David Tuggle 68 When I was asked to be the student editor for this year’s edition, I minds diferently, but everyone has to have that experience to better learn 15th Attempt | David Tuggle 68 was honored by the fact that someone would want me to write about about oneself A Step Back In Time | Abby Wood 69 the experience that I had when I read the fnal draft of the magazine I implore anyone who reads this magazine, whether you’re an To Nothing | Benjamin Bush 73 4 But I would be lying if I would say that I wasn’t scared about writing the established writer/artist or have yet to even explore your artistic interests, 5 Stoic Classism | Claire Sullivan 74 La Mariée | Shawna Layton 76 editorial letter Words cannot describe the raw emotions and feelings that to delve into this edition with open eyes and let your mind discover what Inside the Mind of the Bowhunter | Miranda Eckenrode 78 those who have contributed put into every single one of these pieces in it has to ofer Again I congratulate all of those involved in the making this publication of this edition of Expressions. You are all true artists, authors, and future Being an artist, whether in the fne arts or literature, is not an easy task visionaries Before I leave you to enjoy this magazine, I’ll leave you with as some people make it out to be Artists have the task of overcoming the this quote from the Islamic Scholar, Rumi: “And you? When will you begin fears of their own imagination and then pouring hard work and dedication that long journey into yourself?” into words or images that explore a piece of themselves Writers and artists show us their perspectives and present the world from a new, fresh David Whitaker Student Editor set of eyes These visionaries allow us to explore new ways of thinking Essays, Fiction, Poetry & Artwork Student Literary Magazine | EXPRESSIONS | 2019 2019 | EXPRESSIONS | 30th Anniversary Essays, Fiction, Poetry & Artwork UNTITLED BEAUTY Carol Lusk Essay by Carol Lusk The closer your arrival, the more nervous I became I had never even last peek into the stall before bed revealed a tiny hoof coming out I ran to seen a foal up close, and now, because of an unexpected turn of events, get the baby bag and the phone, and (who knows why?) I grabbed the I was to be your midwife I read the recommended book on foaling, trying book It’s not like I would have time to look anything up Racing back to to remember all the do’s and dont’s The birthing stall had been inspected the stall, I found your mother had you almost delivered We cleaned of for jagged nails, or places you could get a leg caught More wood was the membrane around your nose and mouth trying to dry you The vet added to keep out drafts The stall looked like an oversized cardboard box was on her way It was raining and you slid right out the open stall door where one would place a kitten or duckling The baby bag was assembled into the mud If anyone wants to know what it’s like to pick up a limp, wet, with sterilized bottles, nipples, towels, gloves, colostrum, and all sorts of two-hundred-pound baby, it isn’t an easy task Yet fnally, after a lot of 6 things that made me queasy to think about I had no confdence that I maneuvering and straining, we got you back onto clean straw 7 could perform my assigned task Your mother was already up, maybe too soon It was hard to know what The date came and you did not I tried to look for signs of coming labor to do Something wasn’t right I couldn’t seem to put my fnger on it I kept I wasn’t sure what I was looking for Obviously, the swollen teats of your reviewing the book in my mind You were shaking The book never said mother was a sign But how long would we have to wait? I consulted the anything about this I felt that shaking was a sign of shock I called the vet vet a couple times because my nerves were beginning to fray I should have Yes, your cord never snapped like it should I was told to tie it of I grabbed known that on the day your mother stayed away from the other mare, you some twine and did a quick knot You stopped shaking pretty quickly were close to appearing The vet soon arrived, taking the stress of me I was in comfortable clothes No way was I going to get caught in a She took over putting a better clamp on the cord and making sure the nightgown to do a delivery I was ready to turn in for the night, but one air passages were clear Cries of joy went up when we saw you were a girl Essays, Fiction, Poetry & Artwork Student Literary Magazine | EXPRESSIONS | 2019 2019 | EXPRESSIONS | 30th Anniversary Essays, Fiction, Poetry & Artwork WEST AND NORTH You also had four white legs You were everything we had prayed for You wonderful footing I knew you would win Poem by Esper White could easily grow up to be our foundation mare Your father was the best Cruel fate came into both our lives It crushed my dreams, turning them stallion we had seen You had his beautiful looks Your name would be into nightmares Still, I believed that one day things would improve and we I remember standing on white, soft, grainy coastal bliss—searching Beauty You had spunk You tried so hard to stand But minutes turned could pick up where we left of for direction to hours The vet didn’t want to use the factory produced colostrum But fate, carrying a double-edged sword, dealt the second blow She The sun