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Title: A Teenager's Room
Poet: Mira Gutoff (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The walls are covered with pin-ups and posters -
Brando, Bogart, and the Marx Brothers stare at me
from their places taped to the walls.
Clothes are lying on the floor (I keep promising to pick
them up).
My contraband Nancy Friday books hide beneath my
bed like black market merchandise.
The room smells of essential oils from an aromatherapy
project long ago abandoned.
Depending on the CD on my player, you can hear:
- The gentle crooning of Simon and Garfunkel
- The plaintive wailing of Cyndi Lauper
- The trippy lyrics of Sergeant Pepper
- The indie rocking of PJ Harvey
I'm snacking on the confirmation that crime does pay
(the Reese's Pieces I've stolen from the kitchen).
Like a knight's armor, my leather jacket protects me
from the house's chill.
I tightly grip a pencil in my hand as I try to write that
report for the hundredth time today, amid the myriad
distractions in my room.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Australia
Poet: Tim O'Grady (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I am a huge living reef
I am as lazy as a koala perched in a tree
A sandy deserted beach
A big red rock soaring through the colorful sky
Fresh flowers in a lush rain forest
Foods from a café are screaming in my nose for attention
Salty air on my lips
Exotic, sweet fruit
My adrenaline is racing like a car zooming down an
abandoned highway
Absolute silence
Koala's prickly fur
The sun soaking into my skin
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Beauty
Poet: Michael Koorey (Harborfields High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
What is
beauty:
Is it
that desirable body?
those luscious curves
those chiseled muscles
Is it
within?
an accommodating personality
a facilitating friend
a good Samaritan
Is it
in nature?
a vivid sunset illuminating the crests of waves on the
horizon
a meadow saturated with vibrant hues of flowers
a log cabin resting on a mountain sheltered in snow
Is it
in art?
a portrait
a poem
a picture
a song
Is it
in love?
Or
Is everything
every teacher
every businessman
every street corner
every stop sign
every weed
every galaxy
beautiful
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Black Eyed Susans
Poet: George Wallace, Suffolk County Poet Laureate
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I see the bright face of this our still young and hopeful
nation more in a parking lot weed than in the display
of its proud public gardens, untamed as the original
North American wild, outwitting us to the last and
filled with the breath, a continent wide, of
unplanned vitality.
In the lowest dandelion, in the fairy clover, in the dusty
sway of goldenrod where two highways merge, the
ragged memory of prairie grasslands calls out to me
and praises still sung to the sun-rippled expanse of
northern forest.
I leave to Europe the curve and grace
of horticultural refinement, manufactured intention
and tired topiary imagination - and rather, stoop to
worship here,
even at this crumbling bit of curb,
your voice, America - stubborn, plan, strangely
triumphant. So long as a single unplanned flower
raises up its head to greet the expectant sun,
I too shall greet, in celebration, the promise
of your ragged, wonderful world, which is the reason
why we came here in the first place
and yes! pretty as a patch of Black Eyed Susans.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Blue Eyes
Poet: Amber Zona (Half Hollow Hills High School East, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Beautiful blue eyes,
Like pools of the purest water
Stare into me with such intensity
Beautiful blue eyes,
Like the sky on an autumn day
Take all the clouds away from me
Beautiful blue eyes,
Like the blue china we dropped in the kitchen
Took the blame for me.
I'll never forget the times you'd hold me
The times you made me laugh
The times you made me cry
I'll never forget... those beautiful blue eyes.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Center Stage
Poet: Venice Lagone (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The taste of a dry mouth,
The smell of hairspray,
My heart beating hard in my chest.
Done up in costume and pins,
Concealed in thick make up.
I wait.
Loud music begins and, as everything else is forgotten,
The movements come out of habit.
I lose my breath,
Heart beating even faster.
Feeling all eyes on me even though I see only the pitch
black.
I dance for the dark with the heat of spotlights shining
upon me.
In this moment it is me before the crowd.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Change
Poet: Mike Valente (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Today is the day
I'll get my life on track
No stupid stuff
Gotta stop throwing my life
Over the cliff
I don't wanna watch it fall
Because it's a long drop
A really long drop
If I don't change today
I'll drop till I'm dead
But I'm okay today
I'm on the edge
With one way out...
Only one way out...
That is to change
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: From "Loves" (Attics)
Poet: Lindsay Maione (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I love attics
that smell of dust and age
and people's pasts.
Trapdoors
to musty childhoods,
and concealed memories
waiting at the top of the stairs.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: From "Loves" (Beaches)
Poet: Lindsay Maione (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I love the beach at night
when the splash of waves
against the shore
can be heard through the stillness
and the salty foam
lost to darkness
remains unseen,
and the sand
that sends me darting
with stinging toes
in the sun
feels cool and soft
in the moonlight.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: From "Loves" (Books)
Poet: Lindsay Maione (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I love used books,
the ones with yellow, crinkled bindings
and corners smudged and creased
on favorite pages,
that smell like basements.
I wonder
where they have been
and who else has been lost
between their first and last lines.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: From "Loves" (Chocolate)
Poet: Lindsay Maione (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I love chocolate
that has been in the sun too long
and oozed against the foil,
its melted sweetness
lingering on sticky fingers
and smacking lips,
and stubborn leftovers
to pry from crumpled wrappers.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: From "Loves" (Movies)
Poet: Lindsay Maione (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I love movies
that leak tears down my cheeks
even though I always knew
the guy would get the girl,
and that make me laugh out loud,
the kind of laugh that leaves my stomach sore,
but I don't mind
because it's just buttered popcorn and me,
barefoot and sprawled across the floor
to giggle and sob
until my fingers scrape the kernels at the bottom of
the bowl
and find nothing but salt.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: From "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
Poet: Walt Whitman
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Other Dates: Two major earlier versions of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" preceded the final 1881 version. The poem first appeared as "A Child's Reminiscence" in the New York Saturday Press in December 1859. The second version appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Further changes were included in the 1867 version of Leaves of Grass, but the final title did not appear until 1871. A few further alterations occurred in the final 1881 version. The placard excerpting this version was printed in 2005 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the
child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded,
barefoot,
Down from the shower'd halo,
Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and
twisting as if they were alive,
Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
From the memories of the birds that chanted to me,
From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings
and fallings I heard,
From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and
swollen as if with tears,
From those beginning notes of yearning and love there
in the mist,
From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
From the myriad thence-arous'd words,
From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and
hereafter,
Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond
them,
A reminiscence sing.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Halls of Huntington
Poet: Hannah Helstrom (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I am as bored
as the moody, mischievous pissed of kid
sitting in the empty detention classroom.
My baby-blue backpack
filled with all my textbooks
is as heavy as a block of bricks.
Flipped up polo collars
inspire the preppie cliques.
Last week's confusing math quiz that I failed
is something I need to fix.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: In the Gymnastics Center
Poet: Madeline Jensen (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The new periwinkle floor blends in the with the walls
Like a new moon in a pitch-black sky.
Red and blue stripes run along the wall by the vault.
Poised for liftoff,
Gymnasts align on the vaulting runway.
Floor routine music sings out loudly.
The beam wobbles and the bars squeak.
Chalk dust fills the air like a musty room.
Pizza is my coaches' dinner.
Constant excitement.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Jiminy Peak
Poet: Leslie O'Brien (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Snow is glistening like a blanket of diamonds under the
sunrise.
It is greeting my skis.
A mountain of silence,
The rumbling of the lifts,
The fresh clean air,
The cold wind blowing.
People are crowding,
Laughing,
Screaming,
Enjoying each other's company.
Skiers racing down the mountain as fast as lightning,
Competing against the challenging, icy monster.
Until they finally go inside,
And smell the warm fire burning.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: On Days Like This
Poet: Carli Guastareste (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Clouds moving in the quiet sky
With the loudest presence
Everything make sense
Emotions come to life
Soul is on fire
I sit staring out to nowhere
But see you everywhere
On days like this...
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Our Days at School
Poet: Daisy Kramer (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The school doors swing open,
And the day commences.
Groups of kids herd to their lockers,
As animals do to one destination.
The book bags are bricks,
Hanging from our backs.
Textbooks teach lessons of math,
Science and social studies.
Chalkboards are scattered with number and phrases.
Old novels fill the collection of the school library.
Loudspeaker announcements inform the students of
after school activities.
Evil rumors creep through the hallway.
Cafeteria burritos are filled and wrapped.
The smell is strong,
Almost as the hot sauce that fills them.
The lockers stand tall,
One next to the other,
Waiting the student's arrival.
The doors finally close,
And loud conversations turn to whispers.
Soon it's a new day.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Rowing
Poet: Grace Ha (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The lake glimmers as if someone
had spilled a glass of light, and it lay
broken and glinting on the water; sunbeams cracked as
eggshells,
into sharp curving angles. Raindrops, like eyelashes
flutter against my skin and dissolve
into the dip and arc of my nose, the crease
in my lips. Thoughts mirror themselves
and then distort; in a mind so budding and fragmented,
it feels like a breath underwater, choked and painful.
Now and then, the shining silver skin of a paper-twisted
fish
flashes like the polished flat of a coin, catching the light
in etched grooves and furrows among the
leaves that flow at the bottom, their yellow and scarlet
points
like bright prints in the sand. Along with
the tangled clouds of seaweed, they cushion
the oval of my oar, and let me drift,
gliding below the widening skies.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Searching
Poet: Karen Del Solar (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 9, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I take a poem,
and look at its words.
Confused like a dog between owners,
I don't even know what the first line means.
He tells me to "hold it up to the light,
like a color slide."
To "waterski across the surface."
I tried to hear its secret calling out to me.
I tried to find the light struggling to guide me,
like the stars from the universe, that illuminate the
world.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Semaine
Poet: Ashley Foxen (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Maple syrup sticky on a Sunday morning,
The funnies and a coffee to go.
The jostling of everyday life, but the week rewinds in the
slow-mo.
Every step, every glance holds a forkful of memories for
you.
The stars stood bright last night, demanding a say in the
sky so blue.
I lie along and think back to May as the sun reappears to
moderate the fun.
Fridays of bittersweet, freedom and solitaire.
Finally finished, the smile rolls over without a care.
Creeping back to anticipation and concentration.
A romance with burdens and constant relocations.
Two to go, nine places, seven faces, in the swing of
structure and controlling walls.
Full moon to crescent, a morning of heavy eyes and
alarm clock calls.
You seep into my mind with the water that commences
this mixed up head of soap and thoughts.
The chill wraps around me in the hug of Sunday night.
Thinking of the time to come after the sun has lost its
evening fight.
And Sunday morning seems so far from now.
Its smells linger like the feelings for you.
So the stars say goodnight, and the air pushes me
inside,
To the pillow that holds my dreams as I drift to a new...
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Stand Strong
Poet: Ashley Brown (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
When life gets tough, you must stand strong.
Defend yourself against what's wrong.
Stick up for what you know is right,
In the end it's worth the fight.
It's hard to feel you don't belong,
But maybe "in" is really wrong.
They would prefer you'd take a hike,
not knowing what you're really like.
When others say you don't belong,
It's then you really must stand strong.
You have to strive to say off drugs,
And get away from all the thugs.
They'll try to tempt you to do wrong,
And threaten harm if you don't go along.
Don't let them put your dream on hold,
You can achieve it, if you're bold.
Just be loyal to your own game,
Remember to protect your name.
You'll come to see before too long,
You were right to just Stand Strong!
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Apple of My Eye
Poet: Jiordan Castle (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The city that perfects every cliché of what a city should
be,
Dreams are bent and sometimes broken,
No one ever sleeps and someone's always smoking.
A noisy peace falls upon you like a quiet rain in
renowned Central Park.
The skies are perpetually graying but they are never
dismaying for long.
With elegance and a swifter pace,
The City's alive
And everyone has the chance to be queen of the hive.
The best place to wear your heart on your sleeve and
maybe you can love what you see
In the reflections of New York City.
We New Yorkers love our misery because if life is steady
or maybe just not heavy,
All meaning is lost and everything can seem altogether
petty.
It seems as if Billy Joel is standing on each corner
As you walk under awnings with a New York state of
mind,
And you leave all your baggage behind.
When you are a tiger among all the cats,
You never feel incorrect or abstract alongside beloved
Yankees and their famous bats.
So many sights
And magnificent views clutter our minds.
All of the stressful and quick-moving people
Are really the ones who aren't confused and they are
never truly jaded.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: To Fly in the Water
Poet: Jaya Misra (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The sun hits the water of the swimming pool.
Casts shadows of light across its
glassy
aqua surface.
The sky,
gazing through ripples,
checks its reflection in the
cool
blue depths.
I float
through the water,
like a feather in the air.
Suspended,
like a tear
dangling from your
eyelash.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: To Learn to Love
Poet: Elizabeth Reicherter (Cold Spring Harbor High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
First, take a deep breath,
And as you blow out with a powerful gust,
Blow out all your Self-Sufficiency,
All your Solitude,
All your Cautious Defenses.
Each breath from now on is taken with company,
So breath lightly, and softly, and serenely.
Second, surrender yourself completely:
Let no walls still stand.
Leave no insecurities unabandoned.
And if you fear a soul thus stripped,
Then remember the barren fields
Where you once stood chilled and alone,
And the fierce tides with the strong winds
That once intimidated your shanty raft.
And picture also the heaven unto which you have come,
Laden with yellow light and translucent warmth,
Where you rest now with your love.
Third you must learn to feel:
Feel the Pain of Joy,
Feel the Hurt of Happiness.
You must have the capacity to understand Ectasy,
And to appreciate Bliss.
Fall freely into this abyss of emotion,
And you have learned to love.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Utopia
Poet: Molly Ann Gromatsky (Huntington High School, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2005
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
The rose's fresh buds born into fresh petals of beauty
The sea above me whisks its light shapeful clouds of
mist
The aroma of embers absorb me
The scurry of wild rabbits in their dens
French vanilla coffee grounds being blended nearby
Laundry, drying on clotheslines
Children's joyous laughter is like a lullaby
Fresh croissants cool on a stovetop
Loud bells above the church sway and sing
Large green, hilly meadows filled with wildflowers
Small brick cottages, their doors unlocked
The creak of men's rocking chairs
Sweet roses are sleeping pills, rocking me to sleep
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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