Groveton High School - Tigerama Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Alan Fischer

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The trees are empty for the winter; the school is empty for the clay. The late buses leave; the last dented Volvo |duIIs slowly past Gunston. The final footsteps echo on the sidewalk as they head to¬ ward Quander Road. Nobody ' s here. But the ground ' s as hard as concrete under cafeteria carpeting, and what little grass there is waves bravely from the icy mud. Nobody sees the scrawny maple tree behind the school — naked and shivering as if it had hourly updates on the wind chill factor. Its branc hes and the sky make a frozen filagree, and when the air slides through it just so, it whistles softly in the cold. It ' s the only sound there is on this Groveton winter afternoon, but there ' s nobody around to hear it. Nobody ' s ever around for Groveton winter after¬ noons. It gets dark too ciuickly to really do any¬ thing, after all. And it ' s always so cold. Looking at empty trees. Peggy Green

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