the 2009 Poetry Wall Calendar has now been REdesigned for release as a 2010 calendar!!! Welcome to the Scars Publications 2009 - and now 2010 - Poetry Wall Calendar After receiving submissions throughout November 2008, Scars has released the 2009 Poetry Wall Calendar. This calendar was originally designed for one poems to appear with every month, but we received so many good pieces that over half of the months have two poems on the page. Also, past calendars from Scars Publications have had images from around the world (often with possibly one image of an dog or cat and one image of a man or a woman). But after we archived images from recent travels to the Galapagos Islands, Scars chose to use a lot of nature images from the Galapagos Islands for this calendar. The images chosen for this poetry wall calendar were also from a varierty of places and circumstances... The cover image is of a series of flags from different countries in Wisconsin; the January images is of David (when he was an infant), leaning against a window (with a poem by Michael Ceraolo); the February image is a portrait of Vicki, taken near a bedroom window (with poems by Nathann Hahs and Michael Lee Johnson); the March image is of a Finch in flight at one of the Galapgps Islands (with a poem by Jan Ball); the April image is of a small poer on the water at Puget Sound (in Washington State, with poems by Lyn Lifshin and Tanya Rucosky Noakes); the May image is of a giant tortoise at the Highlands at Santa Cruz Island 12/27/07 (in the Galapgps Islands, with a poem by Rose E. Grier); the June image is of a Sally Lightfoot 12/23/07 at Black Turtle Cove (in the Galapgps Islands, with a poem by Jeff Spahr-Summers); the July image is of a fur seal in the water at Darwin Bay, on Genevesa Island (in the Galapgps Islands, with poems by Michael Lee Johnson and Vincent Spada); the August image is a marine Iguana at Punta Suarez on Espanola Island (in the Galapgps Islands, with poems by Mel Waldman and Janet Kuypers); the September image is of Janet laying on a king-sized bed in a full-length black dress adorned with feathers (with poems by Anthony Hall and Cherise Wyneken ); the October image is of a cat photographed in Austin, Texas (with poems by Mike Wilson and C Ra McGuirt); the November image is of barbed wire on an ominous day near Milwaukee, Wisconsin (with poems by Jack Henry and Cherly Townsend), and the December image is of an astrolabe in the foregound of a Christmas scene (where you can see the bottom of one tree in the foreground and the top of a tree with blue lights in the background, along with a telescope, with poems by Christopher Barnes and Vincent Spada). So enjoy the writings next year, and enjoy seeing sights from both the northern and southern hemisphere in the Scars Publications 2009 Poetry Wall Calendar!

	January The Gene Genie Michael Ceraolo The genuinely nice boy had to have been the result of the recessive nice gene from each of his parents
	February poem #1: Beautiful stride Nathann Hahs the woman waving herself in and out of your life the thread on your sweater that doesn’t belong but if you pull on it the entire thing unravels poem #2: Sandy Michael Lee Johnson I have seen your eyes roam over me so many times, I don’t even bother to feel them anymore. One can speak with the eyes, you know- and you’ve been silent for so long it doesn’t even hurt anymore to see you staring at me and not uttering a word.
	March Australian birdsong Jan Ball Two lorikeets chattering on our hotel window sill this morning, the Sydney skyline a backdrop for their posing. We sit motionless as souvenir emu eggs in our delight, our own feathers still ruffled from sleep, you in your colorful winter pyjamas, me, in my flannel granny gown, but neither of us nodding a green head or stretching a crimson throat, only humming an Australian birdsong in our chests to be back home.
	April poem #1: Lyn Lifshin not targeting corn or churning ripples. Not a sound. The birds float as if stunned or amazed as the current takes them into the cove pink lipstick light starts to fade in. Sleeping, floating. White clouds of doves. Owls. Faces in dreams. Ghosts you could walk thru poem #2: Sea Stones Tanya Rucosky Noakes Your shoulders haunt me like smoothed sea stones that slip away with the tide.
	May Altzheimer’s at your side Rose E. Grier You fade in and out memory evaporates into thin air completely I see you in there then you are gone where did you travel to? just a shell, your combative nature brought to the forefront in a flash, gone in seconds Short Term
	June i told my mother so Jeff Spahr-Summers im going to breaks frosts record five pulitzers for poetry before i die somewhere down the road i cant say for sure you know...its a feeling
	July poem #1: Nothing to Do Michael Lee Johnson Summer As the world burns, Nothing else to do, but Step into liquid cool waves And swim. poem #2: poem by Vincent Spada To play amongst the Islands To frolic in the green and blue To swim and see the beauty To live and love what’s true
	August poem #1: Iguana Mel Waldman Ancient images in the sand: a child jumping up and down, leaping, dancing, and encircling a marine Iguana. But now, there’s only an Iguana drifting in the sand. And the child is an old man, almost invisible, trudging across a private dreamscape, vanishing in the distance. poem #2: Salamander Janet Kuypers when the tail comes off of a salamander the salamander grows back a new tail and at twelve, we were amazed with this little morsel of knowledge and wanted to catch a salamander so we could pull off its tail and see for ourselves and i find it amazing and wonderful and frightening, and disturbing that our quest for knowledge is greater than our compassion
	September poem #1 Old Dress Anthony Hall Gold sequins cover the front and back Worn by a woman, both beautiful and black Made in a time when for Rights many fought Hung in a closet to keep company with moths poem #2 From Her Coffined Bed Cherise Wyneken Blind eyes closed, wearing worn out glasses, her smile shows a hidden view, deep and yet transcendent, tunneling through to eternity.
	October poem #1 Outdoors Mike Wilson Whining meows prompt movement, A frustrated rise from chair, over to open door, Screen door pushed out, Wait: Sounds cease, Quivering furry body stalks over, sniffs... Finally takes a bold leap outdoors. Whew! Now I can get back to work. poem #2 samhain sky C Ra McGuirt moon melting silver against October clouds some things are more beautiful than death.
	November nearly winter Jack Henry nearly winter as skies gray rain falls and the warmth of your body fills our sheets sunlight faded, leaves blow and dance in a lazy breeze, a hint of snow says hello life in winter, buried here with you through all the storms and sheltering cold we hibernate for spring wrapped together poem #2 Quarters Cheryl Townsend If you needed a nickel I’d give you a dime That’s how much I love you Twice as much as you need but not too much that I go broke
	December poem #2 On A Barcoded Pedestal Christopher Barnes, UK/I> A polyvinyl reindeer’s conk Twinkles like raw fingertips. poem #2 poem by Vincent Spada The view from below is like candles burning forever And on this night, in this hour, that glow is needed most