July 2008 QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir, Submitted by Dana Dizon, Richmond High School

Photosynthesis
 
By Issi Avila
Alhambra High
Martinez, CA

This diluted blue cries overhead,
Wrenching at your limp body as the tears skin your screaming limbs-
Leavin you barren once again.
Eternity has scorned your wrinkled bark
And has left it sharper with every blind year.

Such a shameful grey hangs outside;
This must be the day photosynthesis died.