Ablaze Spring 2024

T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

The Empty Chair by McKenna Nay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 New Beginnings by Megan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Moments by Jeffrey Perez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Eye Color: Who We Are by Megan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Try It by Megan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Breaking the Rules by Carolyn Oravitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Advanced and Alone by Megan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 The Purple Man by Megan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Nuclear Love by Antonia Garrah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Distant Memory by Antonia Garrah .................................. 21 Admitting Emission by David Hontz, M.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 An Organic Chemist’s Frequent Retort by David Hontz, M.S. ............... 22 Radium Girls by Emma Kamionka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The Name Game by Mykala Patel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 A Letter to My Children by Ashley Cintron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 A Mother’s Day Poem by Samantha Rosencrans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Engineering a Dream by Jacob Boedeker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Horizons Explored: A Poetry of International Education by Eriane Enriquez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 The Academic Journey of Jane and Ela by Compromise Oboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Life’s Not What It Seems Without Me by Megan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Quel Che Sará by Lauren Marsico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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