This page is dedicated to My second name common relative, William Ashley Johnson. William Ashley Johnson a MFA student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a native of Lexington, Kentucky. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he studied with Peter Meinke and David Scott Ward. Johnson's has been published in Inscape and Greensboro Review. He has work forthcoming in Poem, The Southeast Review, and Raleigh News and Observer. A sample poem by William Ashley Johnson: " ACCIDENTS In the week that follows the old men will circle-up, each with their own scars, notches pinked by the singing sting of barb-wire or a finger, that ends in the puckered knot of a rosy knuckle. They will tell what they know of the accident in the hushed tones of those that remain. Perhaps it is found pinned beneath a tractors heavy roll, or in the quick slip of the saw’s chain that rips the grain of a thigh, or a shirt-tail that finds its way to the baler’s maw. Left unsaid is how it is that a chore done, day in and out turns deadly, as they cast an envious eye to the field left untended. "Accidents" copyright © 2002 by William Ashley Johnson "