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About Street roots. (Portland, OR) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (June 20, 2014)
street roots June 20, 2014 Coffee Stained Sunlight by Mike Vance It isn’t glamorous It isn’t the sound of “Chariots of fire” Blasting through the PA system It isn’t the , muscle bound warrior dragging his victim by the neck down the street It isn’t eternal bliss radiating through your pores Rather it is the long sigh at the end of the day When hope has vanished yet you remain It is another glorious temper tantrum Withheld in self-preservation It is a rude awakening to get up And face another day of this shit And you show up for it anyway I am perseverance. On the Brink of Insanity by Leo Rhodes My comfort zone Where words aren’t spoken, but heard Where the blind can see, what most can’t see Where the mind is expanded As if you had dropped some mind expanding drug Reaching the depths of your mind untouched The vast darkness lightened to expose • The Boogeyman To face your fears I dance to the beat of a different drummer My comfort zone Rain you want to steer clear of Lynda Pilger, Bear Is any rain marching through downspouts wearing tin boots making it impossible to concentrate if you had a living room Rain singingtenor in winter’s opera, if you’ve a sore throat and a box of Smith Brothers cough drops is more than you own. Rain you want to steer L clear of is any lake tossing an SUV with two hundred seventy horses across the Morrison Bridge where a pedestrian and her dog no longer walk under an umbrella shaped like the world cut in two. Order e-books and print copies a t iamnotapoet.org or streetroots.org/iamnotapoet A first for a Portland staple: A trip to the farmers market BY ROBERT ADAMS SfSTERS OF THE R O A D VOLUNTEER h April 14,Thad the chance to go to the Farmers Market up at Shemanski Park on the South Park blocks between Salmon and Main. It was the first time I ever even considered going in a farmers market. They had sugar snap pea samples as soon as we walked in. ' , I had a great time shopping for fresh produce and found a lot of delicious punch card works is that when someone things even some goat cheese which I does barter work in the Cafe they can had a chance to sample and really receive a punch card worth $3 for every enjoyed. I was also able to buy a tomato half hour they work. Then they can be plant start that I will ask my friend to taken to the farmers market where they keep .on his balcony for me. I also found trade them in. for tokens that are used as the farmers to have some of the best . money to shop. vegetables and fruits I’ve ever seen, After visiting the market and seeing including sweet strawberries. But one of how easy and good it was to buy fresh the most important things to me, was the market items, I’m overjoyed that this was fact that the reason I was able go and started. Up to now I could not afford to purchase items at the farmers market was thanks to a new program that started shop at the formers markets: I would hope that people support Sisters Of The at the Sisters Of The Road. Road in their effort to make sure that " Sister Of The Road teamed up with people are able to bring more fresh and the Portland Farmers Markets and New Seasons Market so that patrons of Sisters healthy food into their homes, wherever that may be, when they would not ’ Can use the barter punch cards they earned in the Cafe and buy fresh produce otherwise be able. , H most days of the week. The way the
