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Title: My Only Sunshine
Poet: Lisa Cannavale (Harbofields High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
To me you smell like cherry Jell-O,
And sometimes pickles,
But mostly…mountain fresh fabric softener.
To me you feel like beach pebbles,
And sometimes worn out cotton,
But mostly…bubble wrap.
To me you look like Christmas lights,
And sometimes fresh snow,
But mostly…a golden retriever.
To me you sound like a thunderstorm,
And sometimes rustling covers,
But mostly…a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
To me you are an artist,
And sometimes an angel,
But mostly…you are my sunshine.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Red
Poet: Evyania Constant (Harborfields High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
By green eyes
and a red smile
if the stars could laugh
they would echo you.
But there is the loneliest beauty in that of a star
to be stuck in the heavens
and observed
and loved.
When everyone loves you,
can you really be lonely?
And sing and smile to that laugh of red?
While the red turns to blue
While the red turns to purple
While the red turns to black
The red turns to black.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: FISH
Poet: Scott Huffman (Harborfields High School, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
My FISH goes glub.
My FISH goes plop.
My FISH stares through the glass.
My FISH stares,
and stares,
and stares,
and stares.
I don’t think my FISH blinks.
Do FISH blink?
I don’t believe FISH blink.
If they did blink my FISH wouldn’t.
My FISH is special.
He’s funny,
he has his own rock,
his own hut,
his own plastic piece of seaweed.
I love my FISH.
Wait, I don’t have a FISH…
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: First
Poet: Emily Kaminsky (Harborfields High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Stepping onto the stage
Seeing all the lights on
Looking out at an endless sea
Watching the people here to see me.
Walking into the hospital
Putting on the mask
Making the first cut with a knife
Saving my first life.
Passing all of the exams
Rushing into the courtroom
Seeing my client’s worried face
Winning my big case.
Nervously leaving my dorm
Rushing to my class
Worrying about what to say
Experiencing my first day.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Mysterious Arc of Color
Poet: Holly LoTurco (Huntington High School, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
What is Mother Nature teaching us?
That good can come from bad,
the way she beautifully paints the sky
after a long, sorrowful day of showers?
What is Mother Nature teaching us?
To appreciate the small things in life,
the way a nominal palette of colors
can dramatically alter a mood?
What is Mother Nature teaching us?
To learn to let go.
The way we are forced to forget the rainbow,
for after a few short minutes,
the sky will be abandoned.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Hero
Poet: Ally Mastroianni (Harborfields High School, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Who do you consider to be a hero?
A man that wears a cape and can fly or,
A young boy that walks three miles just to feed his
little sister?
A man that can shoot webs from his wrists or,
A father that would take a bullet for his kids?
A man with extreme strength or,
A teenager that has to give up everything so he can
support his family?
A man dressed up like a bat or,
A boy that stands up to a bully?
A man covered in iron or,
A man that risks his life every day to fight for our
country?
Take your pick.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Creatures of the Rain
Poet: Rita Mezic (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Rain drops are a fool’s tears.
Only those who stand inside can talk
of how it makes the sky’s splendor morph
into a creature
with prickly horns
and reprehensible eyes that
stare right into us.
Yet, one cannot judge a human until
close enough to at least bleed the same blood.
I run outside only when it’s pouring,
because I dance with
these creatures.
I dance until my body is infected with ecstasy in a
manner which
my head cannot rationalize and begins to turn soft
as the jellies of memories take over.
I can see my son, who is six feet under.
I can see my mother before
she fell hard for tainted snowflakes.
I dance until the line between past
and present is blurred because that’s when
God’s creatures
come out to dance.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Bandaged
Poet: Lauren Re (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
People ask why my fingers are bandaged –
I tell them I got them replaced.
People ask why I pick my skin –
I tell them I have nothing better to do.
People suggest I simply stop –
I tell them sure, no problem.
As if it were that easy.
People tell me I should see someone –
I tell them my eyes are too busy.
People tell me they have the same problem –
I laugh and tell them yeah, it sucks.
Yet, I struggle to believe we share
the same burden as they sport their lively
pink cuticles and I struggle to keep the blood
from staining my exam.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: What Is a Miracle?
Poet: Josh Renderos (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
El Salvador. That’s where he came from. When he was seven years old he never would have dreamed of owning a house with more than one bedroom in it. My father played with rocks as toys and he was more concerned with having a meal for the day than having an action figure to play with. I believe coming from nothing and becoming something is what he did. A miracle is not the reflection of light that makes the sky blue. My father had the right mentality to get past gang violence and drugs and instead focus on his goal. Most people do not realize how easy it is for someone who lived in my father’s environment to fall to drugs or to be bullied by gangs who want to take everything you have. In the end I find the old saying “be the miracle” to be very true so that next time I’m offered a little bit of this or just some of that I ask myself what my father asked himself.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Time
Poet: Kelly Rydberg (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
out of time, out of mind
write it out, cross it out, shout it out
time out, figure it out
outburst, fade out
you’re not an outcast
back out, time’s out
three strikes and you’re out
look out,
break out
coming out.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Why Is The Color Wheel Closed?
Poet: Natalie Smith (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2014
Medium: Poem digitally printed on styrene placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on styrene placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
If the old masters
never connected
the ends,
would the laws
of color
simply bend?
Tired of these same hues,
my brushes ache for something new.
Far away from reds, yellows, or blues.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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