Moth inside

Ellery Hamill

Class of ‘28

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A moth has perched on the ceiling

Bathed in the artificial glow of fluorescent lights

With skin as velveteen as the dark sky

Wings fluttering gently

Seeking an escape

Beady black eyes and spindly legs

Body sienna as the leaves in fall

A strange beauty, as if kissed by a harvest moon

Existing at peace

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Moth, why have you come inside?

This is our home, but it has been your vast outside 

Much longer than it has been our hall

Do you wish to return to the infinite sky

Or stay in our man-made warmth?

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Screams of those around me echo is its wings spread

I wonder if you know, moth, the screams are about you

I see you flutter about, dodging the things being thrown

Trying to knock you down

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One has struck, two.

Soon you are on the cold relentless floor

And the rapid flapping of wings ceases

There you are, under a fluorescent moon

Dead

Because you were big and beautiful, trapped inside

For a reason I cannot comprehend, you could not live

This was your home long before it was ours

And for the crime of living

You have been punished

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E Pluribus Unum

Mr. Chris Slaten

CCS Faculty

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One is an improv actor 

dancing on a tightrope 

of “Yes and” and sarcastic quips 

turning all tasks up to 11.

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One is a radio therapist

articulating abundant affirmations

and stray thoughts

in a carefully handled microphone.

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One is a bashful monk

embarrassed to be breaking

some self imposed vow 

of silence and solitude.

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Here is the mystery: 

how each high school class period 

can be as singular a character

as a Trinity,

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how they can together grow

in sincerity, focus, and boldness,

before the May wind comes

and scatters them to bring

what they they have taken

from one body into the next ones. 

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Underground

Layla Wright

Class of ‘27

Different Timelines

Layla Wright

Class of ‘27

The Feast

Layla Wright

Class of ‘27

Untitled

Willem Dunmore

Class of ‘27

Jericho

Timothy Buckles

Class of ‘26

Consumed

Martha Hooks

Class of ‘26

Stitch

Kate Talley

Class of ‘27

Metamorphosis

Kate Talley

Class of ‘27

Scarlet Death

Makaynne Greathouse

Class of ‘28

Just Passing Through

Tamale Conrad

Class of ‘28

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