/ maaazine II •^ V</ A Literary Arts Journal Digitized bythe InternetArchive in2012withfundingfrom Federallyfundedwith LSTAfundsthroughthe Massachusetts BoardofLibraryCommissioners http://archive.org/details/imagazine2006moun magazine i a literary arts journal spring,2006 magazine 1 is a student publication of Mount Wachusett Community College Gardner, Massachusetts magazine editorial staff Brian Moorhead Adam Nadeau Kristie Rines book jacket design John Nobrega front and back photographs Brendan Maguire faculty advisor Michelle Valois special people who deserve thanks Dr. Richard Shine, Susan Blake, Leslie Cullen, David Patterson, Kristine Jordan, Bob Mayer, MWCC Melanie Patterson, Alumni Association, Sandy Arsenault, Greg Clement, and Student Government Association table of contents fiction Kristie Rines The Ferns 7 Angela MacKinnon Joan 27 Chris Dana A Different Me 62 Adam Nadeau Autumn Depression 89 The Car Ride 91 The Outlaw 94 Absolute Drivel 96 Elizabeth Rheault Secrets of the Heart 106 Dennis Carney Fame 111 Sara Williams The Rocking Horse 117 My Untitled 125 Robert A. Hall The Loser 190 nonfiction Susan Suarez Letter to Saint Paul 51 Tracy A. Ulrich Finding Maryland 75 Angela MacKinnon The 14th Picture 114 Toby Woodard Pride Also ComethAfter a Fall 145 Wanda Pothier-Hill Stories from Home 194 Manic Muffins 202 poetrv Scott Gallant The 94th Thesis 15 What I Learned from Dying 16 Greylock, Uxbridge 18 Confined to Classic 19 Caitlin Donahue Santa Barbara 20 Unraveled 21 Speak 22 Proctor Road 24 Memento 25 Cheryl Feeney Switch the Bitch 37 Centered 39 Blurred Reflections 40 Precipitation 42 Tracy A. Ulrich Hills Echo Color 43 Moosehead Lake I Love You 45 night wish 47 Casino 48 and friends 49 Light Dusting of Snow 50 Brian Moorhead No Regrets 55 The Where Song 57 What I Learned from the Police 59 Forward Mom's Mail Here 60 Instant Microwave Sonnet 61 Amanda Williams-Jordan Black 73 My Soul is Gone 74 Gennilla Millan Letting Go - Unbearable 84 Moment in Time 86 Heart to Ashes 87 Red Petals He Loved 88 Angela MacKinnon Unable to See 99 Untitled 100 Falling Away 102 My Elizabeth Rheault Artist of Deceit: Lyric about Love 104 Dennis Carney As If 110 Divine 113 Meghan Thayer So I'm Not a Sado-Masochistic Nymphomaniac 133 Time Untaken 135 ME Wells Beach, 138 Caught in an Undertow of 139 Despair Toby Woodard Right Gully 141 I Don't Need Nothin' 142 Sonnet #7 (for Nicole) 144 Shawn P. Bernard Number 14 172 Pregnant Pause (Of Poetry, a Girl and Myself) 173 The Whole Envelope of Time Slowed 176 Poem for Howard Zinn and a Girl 178 Number 22 179 Tammy Haney Five Untitled Poems 180 Patricia A. Breslin To My Town from Your EMT 188 Wanda Pothier-Hill I Remember 200 Empty Space 205 Eyemagination 206 photography Kathy Cronin Three Photographs 168 Brendan Maguire Photograph 171 Guest Poet: Professor David Patterson We Choose the Fuel We Be One log smolders slowly, groans and sulks, Ahiss among the sputters ofthe sap; Its smoke ascends in vapid grey till folks Must poke the plodding wood with prod and tap. Another's flamejumps quickly forth with sprightly Yellow tips of dancing tongues to cast A glare around the room, a lantern lightly Fighting gloom when slightest warmth has passed. A third stick, dense and dry, burns fierce and deep: Its torrid embers orange emit a heat Intent with innerblazing light to sweep A world awake to eager life complete. The fire of life consumes us till our death; We choose the fuel we be till final breath.