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POEM H By Ruth Moose

CONTRIBUTORS H

Premier Issue

Halloween in Bynum
H Anna Kizer is one of the owners of
Vino!! Wine Shop. She has over seven
years of experience in the retail and customer service business, and 4 years experience in the food industry where her
love and experience with wine began
and grew. Anna graduated from Rhodes
College in Memphis, Tennessee, and is a
licensed attorney. Anna practiced commercial business litigation in Raleigh for
four years until the opportunity to open a
wine shop in Pittsboro arose.

The Bridge of Pumpkins
innards gone, holy light shines
out in circles round as the moon,
square as teeth. A thousand
soles are here
arranged in orange
and night
above the river.

H Anora McGaha is a writer, and social
media and Internet marketing manager
who works closely with Chatham County
businesses to raise there online presences.
She lives with her husband and Pittsboro
rescued Beagle “Lady B” in Apex.

H Ruth Moose was on the creative writ-

Beneath the trees
the shallow rocks lay flat
as graves while on the bridge
an angel or two dance
with a devil or three
dogs in costumes.

ing faculty at UNC for 15 years. She published 6 collections of poetry, 3 books of
short stories and has a novel under contract from St. Martin’s Press for 2014.

H Christine Miller is the owner of Pittsboro Feed, along with her husband David. She is the mother of 3 wonderful
children, and has been in the agricultural/
feed business for over 31 years.

Flashlights and strobe lights
call down the moon light.
We travel one world to another
where the ghosts of a mill village
linger, come out hungry
for praise.

H Yvette Richardson founded and published Old City Life Magazine in St. Augustine, FL for 6 years before relocating to
Chatham County. Now focusing on photographer and graphic design, her talents
are available through Chatham Business
Services, LLC in Pittsboro.

Voices shred the night,
this forgotten, but not,
world of unrelenting labors
charted from the house on the hill.
There, wi