The Clackamas Print 4k
Wednesday, January 22,1997
Poets’ Corner
by Joshua Carlsen
SI nee you’ve been gone
every night
1 lav alone
on beds made of sand,
waves, crash' forever
ticking away time’s clock.
I remember every moment .
your body met mine. /
Wave^ycoming^together
gently surrounding each Jr
^wther.
-Foreign ,murmurs? escaping
from/ypur••delicate lips.
ras our bodieb united.
'Your hands speaking
words you did npt know .
untijfour minds^^fe.
felt?only one thing. '
With: your body] now absent
but your presence still.
felt,
1 lock Into night’s canvas!
brush my fingers
along your silhouette
casj from moon’s light.
yg w^it for your touch,
iisBen .for your voice,
4-hticipate when ocean
Oil bging us together.
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by Kevin Jean
Unfortunate shoe
Flesh-toned walnut soul
Line the weary heels following
in tow
Stepping over gums and sod
one after the ¡other
Snails laughing at us because
we aren’t from around here
Who is from this transient
prison
Confining us to single file
, subsistence
With all our days cloned
feoing through the motions
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Writers’ Club
Contest
February
Deadline:
20
Students and staff of Clackamas Community College are invited to submit their
writings in the Writer’s Club Contest. Submit up to three poems, one fiction essay and
one piece of nonfiction. Winners will receive cash prizes and certificates,
Submit four copies of each entry with SSI number and title to Allen Widerberg in
M253 or Rita Dale in SI32. Include a cover page for each entry including:
Title
Social Security Number
Category
Name
Address
Phone Number
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one more time
Growth wrought with emotions
one more time
Our cycle of predictable
. implosion
■is what it must be
Just as we read this
So we confine ourselves
to the places that aren’t home
by Cindy Rodriguez
he lies quietly
wanting to ask
yet my prone posture
next to him in bed
says otherwise
says “I don’t want to
talk”
not about that
not now
my body fragments
mind breaking
l am sand as I listen
our problems remain
the sand flows