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CSCC HS-04S381-4/7/05 Table of Contents Marsha Leonard – Cherished Parents ...........................................................5 Cheese ............................................................................ 6 Letter Poem .....................................................................7 Do You Know? ................................................................8 Popcorn ...........................................................................9 Words ............................................................................10 It’s Hard for Me ............................................................ 11 Mid-Day Dreamer .........................................................12 Papa’s Right Here .........................................................13 Tyler Goodner – The Ring ...........................................................................14 Gregory L. Cook – How Many Times .........................................................15 Laura Thompson – Poem of Love and Happiness.......................................16 Linda Howerton – Dreams ..........................................................................17 Pieces ............................................................................18 Smoke ...........................................................................19 Inside Out ......................................................................20 Save Me ........................................................................21 This House ....................................................................22 Hanah Ben-Judah – Heaven Only Knows ..................................................23 Callie Harris – Haiku ..................................................................................24 Pamela Ware – The End ..............................................................................25 Peace...................................................................................26 Backed in a Corner .............................................................27 Choice.................................................................................28 Four ....................................................................................29 L. B. Blackwell – How You Must Feel .......................................................30 The Heart Alone .............................................................31 Jennisy Harmon – Silence ...........................................................................32 Andrea Bibee – Mid-Summer Day ..............................................................33 Sheena Chastain – Jonathan ........................................................................34 Curtis Warner – You Must Be .....................................................................35 Paul Roberts – Coward ...............................................................................36 Brianna Austin – Wonder ............................................................................37 Hope Wineman – Untitled ...........................................................................38 Melanie Fulbright – Haiku ..........................................................................39 Jessi Steve – Untitled ...................................................................................40 Campbell Teague – Weeping Earth .............................................................41 Lauralyn Franklin – Extreme Estrogen .......................................................42 Nineteen .....................................................................44 Tissues for My Issues .................................................45 My Big Black Bag ......................................................46 The World a Better Place............................................47 What I Would Have Missed .......................................48 Sunny J. Murray, Samantha Quinn, Stacey Rogers, Melissa Rymer, and Pamela Ware – Random ...........................................49 Samantha Quinn – Film Critic ....................................................................50 Pat Minter – U.S.S. Bolivar ........................................................................51 Wake-Up Call.........................................................................54 Swimming Hole .....................................................................55 Squirrel for Dinner .................................................................56 Sounds ....................................................................................57 Brain or Brawn? .....................................................................58 God’s Grace ...........................................................................59 Frontage Road 7 Marsha Brantley – Punctuation ...................................................................60 Stephanie Stedman – Allie ...........................................................................61 Andrew Albertson – Let Us Be the Ones to Remember ..............................62 Andrew Bell – Nature Poem ........................................................................63 Autumn Cooper – Who Knows a Happy Moment?.....................................64 Farewell, Louise.............................................................65 Tamara Kharabora –Can You Hear Me? ....................................................66 Baby ..........................................................................67 A Murderer’s Symphony ...........................................68 I’m Sorry ...................................................................69 Types of Tears............................................................70 In Your Death ............................................................71 Death .........................................................................72 Sunny J. Murray – Searching by the Water .................................................73 Stacey Rogers – As I Stand Here .................................................................75 Dawn Glenn – What If Love .......................................................................76 The Secret We Share ...........................................................77 When I Look at You ............................................................79 The Ocean ...........................................................................80 Snap Shot ............................................................................81 Melissa Rymer – Pills ..................................................................................82 Christina Lynn – Snow Day ........................................................................83 Talia Dunn – People ....................................................................................84 Jessee Mason – Storm .................................................................................85 War ....................................................................................86 David Ballew – Once Upon a Time in Mexico............................................87 John C. Mannone – Family Portrait ............................................................89 Let Everything That Has Breath .................................90 Star Party .....................................................................91 Fire Polished ...............................................................92 Jessica Kohler – i think ...............................................................................93 Lindsey Bartolai – Love ..............................................................................95 Brian Aparicio-Rascon – Mi Amor Es ........................................................96 Ryan Leonard – Haikus (Part 1) ..................................................................97 Haikus (Part 2) ..................................................................98 Lunch Room Lament ........................................................99 Amy Steinbecker – My Marine ..................................................................100 Katie Healy – Angel ..................................................................................101 The Raincoat ......................................................................102