Scars 2004 Calendar
Photograph taken in Venice

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

Scars 2004 Calendar
Photograph from Cape Canaveral, Florida

Poem by Mackenzie Silver


February

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
Photograph of Katie in Illinois

Poem by Janet Kuypers


July

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
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

Scars 2004 Calendar
Photograph from Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC

Poem by Sydney Anderson


December

Scars 2004 Calendar
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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