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Monument Mountain Regional High School announces senior award nominees

BHRSD has announced the following Monument Mountain High School seniors as award nominees.

POEM: Badger-State Blues

I have this sense that what we took for granted for so long -- the way we lived, and moved, and had our being -- will be changed for all time

POEM: Anchors Aweigh!

The flotilla of uplifted houses sets out in search of Nova Terra Firma.

POEM: ‘To Her Stubborn Daughter’

Dedicated to moms who have the thankless job of dressing their young children in January.

POEM: Mike & Matthew: Showdown at the Border

...if turned from meek-and-mild front to back, reveals himself to be the “whited sepulcher”...

POEM: Demons on the half shell

And like it or not we continue to drink from the same salted cup Toe tapping perhaps to Lonesome Sundown 

POEM: The King of Bedlam

The King of Bedlam is a portly tun whose three-legged stool he takes for a throne.

POEM: Barefooted Dogs

Swaying, barely anchored, I make my way to the bottom pilings of the Mississippi Bridge and begin to climb.

POEM: The reading of the deed

Don’t just stand there staring when water’s seeping in under the kitchen door

POEM: American Bouillabaisse: Take Two

Globally bubbling, ready to serve. That’s us.

It’s Saturday, April 14th  

It’s Saturday April 14th and my three dogs could care less  about the incessant political banter.

POEM: Witness for the Prosecution

The screen has been waiting for you.

POEM: In the Waiting Room of the West Mountain Clinic

“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures…” -- Stephen Jay Gould

Poem: Thanksgetting

A poem on the occasion of Thanksgiving, with a reminder of the myth by which we celebrate this holiday.

POEM: It Happened One Night … in Alabama

The crowd unzips like the Red Sea back in the day – and the dog bounds up onto the podium and gripping it with both paws, becomes POTUS!

POEM: Without Fingerprints

A poem upon the occasion of citizens being arrested for standing in the way of a fracked natural gas pipeline conveying climate change.

POEM: Poor Rex

What’s more, a man who’s made deals with Vladimir and his oligarch pals
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