STAFF EDITORS
Leslie King Julie Laugherty
Editorial Staff Laura Jackson Sarah Nadaskay Aaron Shephard
Design
Will Calvert Julie Laugherty
Faculty Sponser Bobby Rogers
Printing
Tennessee Industrial Printing, Inc. in Jackson, TN, 2017
Editor’s note This was the year we learned what vision is, the only way you really can - in its absence. Those seasons of slowly moving west-ward, the sense of impending epiphany - shockstopped by this massive range of rock. We thought we were prepared: our gear-boxes, the carabiners we began to carry from our belt loops like rosaries. But before we could move, some ancient storm lent this valley its terrible winds. They lingered. Fog and cold caged us against the mountain. The biting air shrunk our lungs, dulled our spirits. It’s May now, and scars of snow still mark our camp with symbolless shapes. We strain, searching the cloudcover for some glimpse of the bare heights. Waiting again on the advent of a sign to start the ascent, trusting it will come.
Zack Clemmons
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Summer Underbelly // Hayley Johnson
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Listen to the Mustn’ts // Shel Silverstein
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Wire plants // Kayli Sommers
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WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS // Shel Silverstein
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Venice // Claude Monet
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MEss // Richard Sandytoes
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The late mr. potato dad // Johan
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Desperation // William Morrrise
SUMMER UNDERBELLY
Hayley Johnson
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VENICE
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Claude Monet
LISTEN TO THE MUSTN’TS Shel Silverstein
Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then lost close to me— Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.
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WIRE PLANTS 9
Kayli Sommers
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.
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biographies Hayley Johnson keeps a botruckle in her pocket shel silverstein is currently hiding out in Puerto Rico with Tupac Shakur Kayli Sommers can’t anymore Claude Monet just wants stronger perscription glasses Richard Sandytoes can communicate with squirrels Johan deserved better William Morrrise was the lesser known arts and crafts artisan who just wanted to escape his older brother’s shadow.
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