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October
29, 2002
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Serving
Western Deschutes County
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Sisters,
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Camp
Sherman poet honored
By Conrad Weiler
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John
M. Schwartz, poet. Photo by Conrad Weiler |
The Camp Sherman poet competed with over 4,300 entrants in this category.
"The writer effectively clangs the vocabulary for organic, natural things (trees, birds, sky, wings, sea) against the iron and concrete. This play of opposites dramatizes the 'straining,'" said final-round judge Robert Pinsky.
John and his wife Jill have lived in Central Oregon for the past decade.
He continues a lifelong love of writing poetry and short stories.
Arising at 5:30 a.m., he writes about 30 lines of poetry each morning.
"Bank of China" comes from a working career in Hong Kong, sitting and observing the area and finally putting his thoughts onto paper.
Writer's Digest will publish John's poem in the February 2003 issue. Along with the first place award, he also received $750 and $100 in book purchases.
His "The Perfect Place," will appear in an upcoming edition of the magazine Cascade Reader.
Bank of China
Giant iron birds atop steel trees
Their droppings like hot blisters
against a lead colored sky
Wings festooned with lights
casting glare-washed shadows
over little brown men in tattered shorts
climbing bamboo ladders in wet sneakers.
Iron birds retching gullets
full of concrete into welded nests.
Rising higher, always higher,
straining the sea upon which they rest.
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