Welcome to the 2004 Scars Publications and cc&d
2004 Wall Calendar

In keeping with the tradition of creating calendars, this year Scars Publications and cc&d have generated a full color wall calendar with images anyone can get for the office or kitchen wall. These are the writers whose poetry appears in this calendar, and below are come of the poems and the images from the calendar collection.

January

Photograph from Cape Canaveral, Florida

Poem by Mackenzie Silver

February

Photograph taken of a plastic newt on a windowsill, in Urbana, IL

Poem by Sara Hemmings Fly I was deprived of winter that February the snow forgot to fall on the statue in the park. The nights were vast and the skies were empty as I stood on the bridge waiting to fly.

March

Jesus Photograph taken in Venice

Poem by Marie Kazalia out of the language of a thousand fears jesus christ in a jelly jar sold in every store and on every street corner for 10 pesos exchange rate equivalent to about 1 US buck more or less spread him on your toast wash him down with weak brown coffee--

April

Photograph of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC

Poem by John Yotko I Speak With Borrowed Words I Speak With Borrowed Words. I'd like to think they were mine, these words of individual rights, of logic and reason, but I know they are not mine. I Speak With Borrowed Words. I haven't had time for my own, with the job, the house and school, you know how it is. Life just seems to take time away. If you ever hear me speak with wisdom, I Speak With Borrowed Words, because I haven't any of my own.

May

Photograph of silk flowers lit by a black light in Champaign, IL

Poem by Cheryl Townsend ECO SYSTEMS I steal plants along the road Walk in the woods and return with wild basil trillium and mountain mint bring them home to naturalize them in my unnatural flower beds

June

Photograph of Katie in Illinois

Poem by Janet Kuypers

July

Photograph of Spanish Moss on trees in Louisiana

Poem by Rose E. Geier OXYGEN AT THE SURFACE Where do I go when I get bogged Down with pain I process to the smallest denominator Within my control I shoot to the surface Where the oxygen is.

August

Photograph of the Louvre, Paris, France

Poem by Xanadu Apple Core Oldenburg's superb huge eaten apple In red and yellow towards wall Of Jerusalem Israel Museum Plastic plastics in delicate equilibrium Gravity contra artist's genius Matisse in three-dimensional grace Life's precious private details Enlarged to show humanity's humility

September

Photograph of the Aurora Borealis taken in Fairbanks, Alaska

Poem by Linda L. Bielowski, Ph.D. Wakantanka To The Great Spirit I grew up learning grandpa's lessons Watching the sky looking for portents friend and foe Spirits in the ethers dancers in the sun visions in the clouds whispers in the wind Signs and Wonders All

October

Photograph of Iwo Jima and the Waskingtom Memorial in Washington DC

Poem by Michael Ceraolo 197 Autumn leaves: some in a hurry to die, others are more resistant

November

Photograph from Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC

Poem by Sydney Anderson

December

Photograph of Adrian in Denver, CO

Poem by Mather Schneider Father “And above all he looked to be filled with a horrible sadness. As if he harbored news of som horrendous loss that no one else had heard of yet. Some vast tragedy not of fact or incident or event but of the way the world was.” - Cormac McCarthy The old janitor has been up all night cleaning the school and now it is nearly dawn and he is at his last mirror and his spray bottle is like the gun that he will put in his mouth when he gets home and the blue liquid tears run and he wipes until the squeaking sounds like morning birds.

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