Kudos!

3 Sealth students included in anthology ::
Nyssa, Dustin, & Jan: Congratulations!!


Writers in the Schools (WITS) book launch
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, Central Library
1000 Fourth Ave., Microsoft Auditorium, Level 1, 206-386-4636


Students from local high schools will read from a recently-published anthology of their original work, "We Will Carry Ourselves as Long as We Gaze into the Sun." Copies of the anthology will be available for purchase and signing. WITS is a program of Seattle Arts and Lectures.

Emotion

Bones in a bag of gelatin
I shake
And they shake at me

Big, Small, Everyone
There are 2 kinds of Reality
There are 2 kinds of Time
Where do I fit?

Selfishness, Fireflyers, Denial
Is it true?
How do I see myself?
Mirrors lie through their teeth
And I turn them into shards

Earth, Way, Oh!
There are too many paths
Created by the flaw of human hand.
but one path in dark shroud
Leads me right to the heart

Sun, Tower, Jump
The sun reaches
its zenith in the sky
and I think see myself
with the clouds

Ashen, Sick, Trickle
Black waters lap
At the edge
Beckoning a thirst in man
I feel such thirst
But I see none potable

Hospital, Ringlet, Wallflowers
And I sit and see a worn face
It knows, that I don’t know.
I am told the face
Maybe my own
And I shake the broken hand
Bones in a bag of gelatin
Above: Jan
Left: Jan's poem
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