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CSCC HS-04S171-4/12/04 Table of Contents Harry Dean–The Writer ................................................................................5 Clark Rose–Annessa’s Dad ...........................................................................6 Krista Rison–This Is My Prayer ....................................................................8 Julie Fulbright–Grasmere .............................................................................9 Memory Lane ....................................................................10 Crystal’Ann Stanich–A Job Well Done ....................................................... 11 The Last Semester .....................................................12 Tracey Thompson–Seasons ..........................................................................13 A Man ...........................................................................14 You................................................................................15 This Little Girl ..............................................................16 Valorie Ray–The Road to Nowhere .............................................................17 Anonymous–Smalls......................................................................................18 Anonymous–Why .........................................................................................19 Anonymous–untitled poem ..........................................................................20 Kierren Lovick–The Projects .......................................................................21 Megan Standifer–Hope ................................................................................22 Brandy Parrish–Dear Soldiers ....................................................................24 Motherhood ......................................................................25 Labor of Love ...................................................................26 Something New ................................................................27 Jennisy Harmon–Simple Words ..................................................................28 Melanie Fulbright–Ash Wednesday ............................................................29 Leah Petry–Oda ...........................................................................................31 The Lecture...............................................................................34 The Semester ............................................................................35 The Inmate ................................................................................36 Janice Noles–untitled poem ........................................................................37 Tiffany Bullington–When You Are Near ......................................................38 Roshonda Westfield–The Definition of True Brown Sugar .........................39 He Is ...........................................................................40 Shaunta Hendking–This Honda Civic .........................................................41 Cassie Ahwazi–Change ...............................................................................42 Lauralyn Franklin–Gracefully Growing Old ..............................................43 James Reed–Hugs ........................................................................................44 Connie Quinn–The Wilderness Christmas ..................................................45 Of Possums and Pumpkin Wine ..........................................48 Brandon Grant–A Man Who Can Do It All ................................................52 A poem by Seeker–Full Circle .....................................................................54 Jean McCants Crockett–The Drama Queen and the Orator ........................55 James Lawson–Blue Sky .............................................................................56 Coming Home ....................................................................57 Human/Nature ....................................................................60 Southern Stories True and Tall ...........................................61 Kayla Partain–Night’s Huntress: A Little Riddle .......................................62 Jada Dachelle Davis–Beneath the Moon ....................................................63 Meant to Be ..............................................................64 Nothing to Fear.........................................................65 So Far Away .............................................................66 They Are Mine..........................................................67 Frontage Road 6 Amanda Swafford–Best Friends ..................................................................68 Foreign Land .................................................................69 The Patient .....................................................................71 Becoming Mrs. Hardy ...................................................73 Through the Darkness ...................................................78 Jennifer Gregory–Western Union................................................................79 Momma Can’t Answer the Phone ..................................80 The Precipice ..................................................................82 Brittany Hobbs–The Toothless Toad ...........................................................83 Parking Lot Madness .........................................................84 Tamara Kharabora–Dreams of Reality .......................................................85 A Pleasant Goodbye ...................................................89 Jacque Goins–Co-Pay .................................................................................90 White Easter Sunday: 1961 .................................................92 Alpha to Omega ...................................................................93 Lord, Teach Us How to Pray ...............................................94 Never Changed the Sky (911) .............................................95 Jonathan Garrett–Ode 1 ..............................................................................96 Cayci Goins–untitled poem .........................................................................97 Chrissy Hughes–They Will Catch Me .........................................................99 untitled poem ..................................................................100 Just Going to Drink a Little ............................................101 James McGrath–Doin’ Laundry ................................................................103 Joshua Akins–Drunken ..............................................................................104 Monica Crox–9-11 .....................................................................................105 untitled poem ......................................................................106 A Nurse ...............................................................................107 Peter Swift–The Spring..............................................................................108 The Shadow ............................................................................109 Gene Henley–The Player ........................................................................... 110 Megan Oliver–Escape ............................................................................... 112 Laura Beth Burrell–untitled poem ............................................................ 113 Marshall Toney–The Story of Lust ............................................................ 114 Tonya Caldwell–Nature ............................................................................. 115 On a Cold Rainy Day ..................................................... 116 The Berlin Wall ............................................................ `117 What Is ........................................................................... 118 A Moment in Time.......................................................... 119 Julie Nelson–The Man in the Moon ..........................................................120 PHOTOGRAPHS SUBMITTED BY: Tonya Caldwell, Tyler Neff, Tangie Swanson, Christy Rogers, Janet Davis, Tabitha