Glances, number eight

photo by Mark Robertson

Coeur d' Alene High Shcool

Spring Semester

1983

"All copy rights to poems and stories in GLANCES are reserved to the writers and their teacher, Kay Gran Powers."

Joe Marks

CREATIVE WRITING

Creative writing is such fun.

It's like when your pencil turns into a gun.

Whatever your pencil writes,

the paper has no choice but to say it.

Fold towels: ten times ten

Fold 10, ten, 9 more

times.

Ok, fine, ten more

time.

Lay the ten aside again.

Tie them, tie them. Ten times

ten.

Heck with this all, let's

hit the streets,

Boss lady gave me the dough.

Love

is

a

swamp.

SOUND

Is the light of life to a blind man.

It's his cheat sheet to sight.

The plop, plop or clip, clip of a

footstep tells the type of shoe

or floor and the distance of a

person nearing.

The low hum of a refrigerator is a

homing device for the hungry.

A clitter, clitter on the window or

roof is a giveaway to rainy

weather.

The plunk of closing notebooks

reassures that class is ending.