Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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table of contents Pg 36-39 — football Pg. 40. 41 — soccer pg. 42 — wrestling pg. 43 — x-country pg. 44. 45 — fencing pg. 46. 47 — basketball pg. 48 — swimming

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Aren't we all fragments of the cosmos, Tumbling through space arm in arm? Joined for strength against the vacuum's uhnc And knotted with the bonds of preservation?! Hell no... j V le drift apart within our space, Find our answers within ourselves Even though we are amazingly lost In trillions of light years, Great yawning gulfs of ages, mass. Monstrous bellowing swirls of We are free; independent, we say, Ik And heed not the boiling, raging, convulsing L Pulse of this universe. MB What power the pulse that barely throbs Beneath the pressed thumb M In a cosmos heaved forever outward? '1 What power all the pulses of all the life , ■ : In all the world against the hollow song ' Of endless night? The forever echo of an explosion that scattered worlds [ The forever echo of all the howling death that was ever torn from life? WThe forever echo oft Christ, Elil Elil, on his cross? , — r The forever echo of fusing suns and bursting galaxies |iAnd yet we gall to stand apart A I And attempt to answer all from the cosmos wtthrn.jm w We ride the sea this way, Our own peculiar sea that makes its waves hi this dark static the fringe of I The universal consciousness; The waves, too, echoes of power iv 1 ' As we all are echoes of some power 2 J And brothers by our very diminutive presence Together On the periphery • Of God's exploded memory.