Winter 2013: Poetry
From the 7th Floor of Doernbecher Children's Hospital
by Larina Warnock
I don't live here in this place of pine and birch where every direction you turn faces one river or another. This window shows me how streets curl in line with the Willamette, currents of cars and people like floods of normality and routine. These are details I might not perceive from any other window. Questions surface from Interstate 5 like water molecules building cirrus clouds. How do we go about getting on with our lives? A nurse calls my son's name and I turn his wheelchair from the window. I recall the river’s shimmering surface in the distance. I let that image guide us through a hall not unlike the Columbia's passage toward setting sun.
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Three emerging writers share talent and creativity far beyond their years. |
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