The following is my first of five poems of twenty-eight I’ll write for all members of my Carter County High School class of 1974. I’m writing in alphabetical order. One must write when the faculties still exist. The poems are entirely from my memory, and I take all credit or criticism for which I might incur. I would include the “Class Prophecy” which I found online, but talk about snarky. Hence, I will not include it.

‘Pseudo-Sonnets’ For My Class of 1974

I will write, of class of seventy four,

Alphabetical, twenty eight of us,

A blurred memory as guide, days of yore,

Hatchets buried long ago...