64 Tower 2006 Spring Edition 1 Credits Front Cover: Tracks to Auschwitz—Rebecca Scheenbaum—Photo Title Page: Butterfly—Molly Hanson—Photo Back Cover: The Debt of Humanity—Brian Barrett—Pen and Ink Tower A magazine for the literary and visual arts Deadlines For next year’s winter edition: October 31, 2006 for written work December 1, 2006 for art and photography Submission Forms are available in Room 415, the Publications Center Note: In the interest of fairness, all Tower entries are evaluated anonymously to ensure that no bias is present. All names are removed once the entries are received, and each author’s name is replaced with a number. All Rights Revert to the Author Upon Publication Colophon col·o·phon n. 1. An inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1996, 1992, by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A final pre-press copy of this edition of Tower was sent to Staples in Hookset, New Hampshire, on Friday, June 2, 2006, for production of 200 copies in 8 ½ x 11 inch staple-bound magazine form. The magazine is printed in process black on 70 lb. white page stock, and the cover and back are done in Pantone® 192 ink and is printed Volume LI Issue 2 on white finish stock paper. Page layout for Tower is done using PageMaker 6.5. Individual entries are typed and formatted using Microsoft Word 2000. We also used Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 to scan and resize pictures. The body of the Spring Edition publication utilizes the OCR A Extended and Times New Roman typeface by S. Morison, S. Burgess, and V. Lardent. Rights to all typefaces are owned by Adobe Systems, Inc. The cover price for Tower is $3.00. The production cost is more than $4.00 per copy. The difference in price is paid for with the assistance of Tower-sponsored fundraisers and financial support from the Pinkerton Academy administration. The production of a single issue of Tower constitutes approximately 700 staff hours of work. About 300 hours are spent reading entries, about 300 discussing and voting on those entries, about 100 on layout and other administrative tasks. Pinkerton Academy 5 Pinkerton Street Derry, NH 03038 2 Tower 2006 Spring Edition 63 Table of Contents Tracks to Auschwitz—Photo Rebecca Schneebaum Cover Butterfly—Photo Molly Hanson Title Page Palm Tree Christmas—Computer Graphic Norma Bates 4 Relative Joy Jonathan Potvin 4-6 Mere Love Kara Holbert 6 Diana’s Portrait Bethany Wolfe 7-12 Dear reader, Diana Shaw—Pencil Bethany Wolfe 8 Hope—Photo Jonathan Potvin 13 The Spring Edition of Tower often includes more form poetry Transcendental Flow Samantha Claussen 13 than the Winter, and this is no exception. Within this volume, Ode to the Community in My Closet Jessica Collyer 14 you’ll find villanelles, pantoums, and sonnets. These My Library Taylor Sands 15 combined with free-forms, stories, play, art, and photography Imagine—Pencil Samantha Claussen 16 create a well-rounded magazine. Wind Kara Holbert 16 False Illusion Sammi Martin 17 The Tower staff greatly appreciates all who have bought The Hitchhiker Samantha Claussen 18-21 magazines, cookies, or floppy disks. We would especially like Summer Rest—Photo Jonathan Potvin 21 to thank Mr. Richard Keller for his generous donation to the Midnight War with My Thoughts Alex Ryan Scarelli 22 magazine. Their contributions help keep Tower in production. What Happened to the Senior Steps— Brian Barrett 22 Pen and Ink We are also grateful to the staff for their many hours of Dust Washed Over Kara Holbert 23 reading, voting, and proofreading that made this volume as The Deserving Sara Angelosanto 24 good as possible. And, of course, thanks to the many students Ghostly Tree—Photo Molly Hanlon 25 who submitted their art and writing to the magazine. in silentiæ Meaghan Cassidy 26-27 Anticipation—Photo Jonathan Potvin 28 Both editions of Tower have been great this year, and I am The Wanderer Bethany Wolfe 28 excited to see where the magazine will go in 2007. Dawn’s Rivals Sammi Martin 29 Perceptions Jonathan Potvin 30 With all due respect, In the Shadow of Faneuil Hall Megan Cassidy 31 Falling Whispers Josh Gerry 31 Summertime Heat Allie Tompkins 32 Ebb and Tide K. Calabrese 33 Lighthouse—Photo Molly Hanlon 33 Amelia Winchell Comforting Shroud Samantha Claussen 34 I Quietly Waited for Things to Work Out— Brian Barrett 34 Pen and Ink Killing Time Meaghan Cassidy 35-43 Past, Present, Futre—Photo Jonathan Potvin 44 Tides Bethany Wolfe 44 In Flames Amelia Winchell 45-46 62 Tower 2006 Spring Edition 3 A Short Summary on the Death of Brian Barrett 46 a God—Photo Cult, Overturned Alex Ryan Scarelli 47 Green-aftertaste, zucchini-vegetable Michelle Noyer-Granacki 48-49 Deathday of St. Valentine Heather Lefebvre 49 How to Escape Neverland Raylynn Tustin 50 Into the West—Pencil Samantha Claussen 51 Burnt Bridges Jessica Collyer 52-56 Freedom Lies Through Death Gate— Rebecca Schneebaum 56 Photo Clock Kara Holbert 57 Priorities Amelia Winchell 58-59 Snoeshoeing on an Early Morning Heather Lefebvre 59 The Dings of Life and Death Jessica Collyer 60-61 Rebirth Spring Sprung Auschwitz Gate Tower—Photo Rebecca Schneebaum 61 Jonathan Potvin Spring Sprung—Photo Jonathan Potvin 62 The snow slowly melts Photograph Rebirth Kara Wamsley 62 all around me, The Debt of Humanity—Pen and Ink Brian Barrett Back as the first warm b r e a t h s of spring Tower Officers blow through the trees’ Editor—Amelia Winchell naked arms. Secretary—Lauren Chase Dead grass starts Treasurer—Meredith Fleming to show its hair, Art Editor—Alex Newell covering the Photography Editor—Brian Barrett frozen earth, waiting for it to thaw Tower Advisor enough for green blades to slice Mr. Ian Veitenheimer through the dirt. Snow reluctantly Tower Members recedes from sidewalks, and street signs, leaving only mud, Kaleigh Bates and puddles, Heather Brule as a reminder of the winter, Samantha Claussen left behind in the Michelle Connor R E B I R T H Josh Gray of Spring. Kara Holbert Kara Wamsley Kara Wamsley Eva Watson 4 Tower 2006 Spring Edition 61 Wearily I leave this place behind through the automatic doors I make my way toward home one of the privileged that may see behind these hospital walls while the patients remain waiting to see the outside world once again Jessica Collyer Palm Tree Christmas Norma Bates Computer art Relative Joy The doorbell chimes with festive glee as eyes widen and children flee. The crowd gathers while minutes pass. How long can they stand there? How long will this last? The entrance creaks open apprehensive, and slow. The more sluggish it moves, they’ll freeze in the snow. But through they all push, arms outstretched, dreadfully eager to see, how much we’ve grown, how old we must be. Jolly with laughter, with holiday cheer Auschwitz Gate Tower plastered with smiles, Rebecca Schneebaum ours masking the fear. Photograph 60 Tower 2006 Spring Edition 5 The Dings of Life and Death Mom pushes us forward A whirlwind of senses with a nudge and a glare, smells, sterile and uninviting as we think to ourselves, scenes of bland waiting rooms “O God they’re all here!” with anxious patients and family members the television mounted in the corner plays trite soap operas Sure enough not one’s as people wonder, wait, hope, pray, gotten lost or astray. Will they make it through? Why them? Why me? Taken the wrong exit. The elevator dings, the doors whoosh open Or forgotten the day. a moment’s hesitation— is it good news or bad news? With childlike glee, was a new, beautiful baby born the first one descends. or did a lost soul leave our precious Earth? Hearty Farty Uncle Marty with that finger he extends. Ding—the cradle appears followed by the beaming parents warm smiles that cannot be broken Then come hands, those demoralizing mitts. because of the miracle of new life With their bumps and their jabs, the tiny features, soft hair, eyes closed dreaming of its future- Poke and prod Grandma Maud the world is the child’s to conquer Grips and she grabs Ding—a death, a tragic accident a life taken too soon from us Before passing us off, a disease, long and painful, or a snap as we flinch in her clinch, to in time and then suddenly no more Pinchy Winchy Aunty Linchy, cold, abandoned, empty, and alone, Who’s looking kinda Grinchy. everything that matters left behind Our heads swirl with pictures, I walk through the twisting hallways, wandering, not yet lost this must be the end, I can’t be lost—I have a mission all the signs are in place! a vial of blood, a specimen, medication, maybe flowers or a card Our home we can longer fend! the rubber glove in my pocket makes its way to my hand, a necessity in a place like this The sky is falling, ER to Intermediate Care, Medical Records to Pediatrics The Christmas tree is on fire all over the hospital I travel, running errands There’s coal in our stockings And Santa’s a liar! Scenes that haunt me run through my head— patients lying still as death, unconscious in their beds He told us we’d get wires and tubes connected to life saving devices whatever we’d like, I step in the darkened room to deliver a card so who was the fool a chill runs through me as all is silent who asked for Rand and Rave uncle Mike? except for the steady beep of essential machinery 6 Tower 2006 Spring Edition 59 I’d rather eat sweat socks, or swim with an eel, And you smile than sit down and eat smirk at her urgency with Bottomless pit Uncle Neil! to play with something new wondering how the fuzzy ball is more important than the jangling fish I refuse to get angry! before you notice the time I refuse to get made! in a panic, rush off to work I’ll just get even..