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Title: Ode to a Quill
Poet: Irene Antony (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 9, Age 14)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
Brush your feather on my arm
Nip me with your point
Dip into a fancy stand
My paper you anoint.
With words of script, tall and narrow
Spelling language not yet seen
I scribble and stumble and vent
While you lounge in your stand serene.
Though you sometimes falter and scratch the page
We can make amends
For you always perked up and endured
The long stories I have penned.
I feel pity though you are the one
Who dots my creative style
Onto scrolls so regally
Composing tales of romance and guile.
For you I stab through paper
And sometimes forget to comply
I promise even when I’m gone,
I won’t ever let you dry.
How you aid me, how you inspire
My writings, but I digress
Oh wait, I loved you till this minute
When you spilled ink all over my dress.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Egg.
Poet: Pamela Best (Harborfields High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
Some days I feel
like an egg, insides
all scrambled by the hectic toss
of my day. I am humpty
dumpty and I stand
on the brink of falling if
some small push sends me tumbling,
my fragile body shrinking
from the cold hard floor.
My world feels small
and close, my carton sides
pushing against my pale shell,
the cold condensing on my cheeks like tears,
Some days I feel like I am cracking.
But most days it’s all a dream,
and when I peel my eyes open I find
the sunny side is a sunrise,
and I am not breakfast, but in fact a robin
downy with the first fuzz of spring.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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| Title: By a Thread
Poet: Emily Biederman (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
I’ve always preferred being
on my own; alone.
I was never comfortable
with being a button
on a dress shirt.
Attached yet fragile.
Threatening to come undone,
if pulled too hard
falling to the dusty ground.
To be swept up and tossed together
with all the other unwanted things.
While the place I once filled, void for a time
but easily replaced.
Sewn in again
with new thread
pulled tighter than the one before.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: A Rumble of Thunder
Poet: April Fallon (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
I stand on my porch
smelling the fresh summer rain
still feeling your soft moist lips against my cheek
still feeling your warm hand between my fingers
I watch as you climb into your matte black Chevy
it blends into the night and the wet asphalt of my
lonely
street until the rumble of the starter and the faded
headlights illuminate the beams of rain.
I stand there in the shelter of my roof.
Not moving.
Not wanting to let go as you pull away.
And even when you are out of sight,
I stand there straining to hear the last bit of your thunderous
truck
until all that’s left is the darkness,
and the quiet of the storm.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Just Before When I Was in the Shower
Poet: Nicole Grennan (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
Just before when I was in the shower
I sang to myself a song you sang to me
And I found myself to be within an hour
Dreadfully sad with thoughts of how things used to be.
You will always be the brightest star in my sky
It’s just that now it burns when I look up
I’m wearing sunglasses at night, I mustn’t lie
Because I’m afraid to catch you with wine in your cup.
The light in your eyes and your worsening crooked smile
Could change so much behind the lock of your door
But now that smile seems like a distant file
And I feel like a beggar for happiness, cold and poor.
I miss you every second of every day of every season
And I wish I hated you enough that my love required a
reason.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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| Title: Early Morning
Poet: Lauren McMahon (Harborfields High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
The morning dew was sprinkled
lightly over the delicate grass.
The blades breathed slowly
under the droplets.
The delicate balance of
sunlight crept over the earth.
The misty air trickled
between branches like a snake.
The seductive whisper of
early morning quietly set the world
in motion.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Hah, Good Luck!
Poet: Ken Miyaguchi (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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 you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must
first create the universe
Boom, or maybe pop, snap?
Add carbon, light, heat, and seven trillion tons of
primordial soup
Apply lightning and dinosaurs
Knead thoroughly with a titanic meteor
Leave in the vacuum freezer of space and let rest for
approximately 6.3 billion years
Wait for civilization to rise, sugar to be processed and
allow for your ego to swell
Wait for other people to grow the damn fruit
Other people to make the flour
Knead together, slice and chop, pour and primp
Set at 350 for 25
Voila –
You did it! Apple pie from scratch, for real this time you
jerk
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Trees
Poet: Bridget Nostro (Harborfields High School, Grade 10, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
The trees passed quickly
The bus made loud noises
But we weren’t moving
The trees were playing tag
The bus broke down
We weren’t moving
The trees were
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Killing Time
Poet: Shayna Pehel (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
Some time ago
there was a man
dying at a bus stop.
His moments
ticking away.
The colors of the
setting sun
fading
like the light in his charcoal eyes.
Already the white chalk
outlining his frosty skin
leaving a morbid mark
for whoever cared to glance.
Forever somebody’s grandfather
clock is broken.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Unbreakable Bond
Poet: Linda Powell (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
You are a clap of thunder,
and the calm after the storm.
Stronger than nails,
yet more vulnerable than a round, ripe peach.
Even when teetering on your own feeble feet,
you are my secure, steady crutch.
You glow like gold fireflies
illuminating the inky night.
You never leave my side,
like a shadow that I don’t want to shake.
Our bond is an unyielding, cohesive knot
tightly tied.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Ball
Poet: Donovan Snyder (Harborfields High School, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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: It flies, it soars, it rolls, it bounces.
A pristine white, an albino horse’s leather.
Red horseshoes interlock to form the design.
Dirt and grass stains tarnish the color.
Thrown, thrown back. Thrown, thrown back.
Thrown, crack.
It shoots rocketing past, whizzing through the air.
Steadily rising in altitude, as does the excitement from the
stands.
Bang, it hits the chain link fence.
The excitement quickly deflates.
Tilted silver squares appear on the skin, adding to the
impurities.
It softly lands, engulfed in lush grass.
Skin is wrapped around it, then launched back in the
direction from which it came.
Thrown, thrown back. Thrown, thrown back.
Pieces of leather lift from the ball.
White is seen no more.
Stitches and leather are no longer smooth.
Hit into the woods.
Too hard to grip.
Too wet.
Too ragged.
“Let’s get another one.”
There is always another one.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: An Army of Quills
Poet: Claudia Zajic (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer)
Year of Creation: 2015
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:
The strings from redcoats
Have been cut
By a four-in-the-morning discussion –
A collection of wigs,
Gathering together to dust off
An old sewing machine
In hopes of piecing together
Scraps of former colours
Into a flowing symbol
Of unity and allegiance
The implication of a rebellion
Scatters the scarlet lions
As a baker’s dozen confesses
To a need for a singularity
Caused by a feather
Dipped not in poison –
But in ink.
Poetry & Art Category Winner:
Inspired by Drafting of the Declaration of Independence
a painting by Alonzo Chappel in the collection of The Heckscher Museum of Art
(August Heckscher Collection)
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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