INK! Volume 3 Issue 2 Spring 2014 | Page 8

Instructions:

Titles and Student Names in: Aller

(Titles Bold 36 pt, Names Regular 24 pt)

Article Text in: Chucaratext 20 pt

Caption Text in: Aller Italic, 16 pt

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Wrap text around photos to work with space when appropriate.

Uncle Roger

by Lindsay Walls-Ott '16

We were never close,

I saw you every 4th of July, 

a crushed rock driveway led our shared family’s cars

to your land.

A place where deer’s eyes held no fear,

and strutted through morning fog,

You let them know they still owned the place.

You understood you were the visitor, not them.

We were never close, until now.

At family gatherings I rarely saw you stand,

you’d sit in a large armchair, eating like an otter.

Using your rotund stomach as your table.

Then you would rise, go out to the deck.

Where appetizers sat under netted protection.

You’d smoke a sweet smelling cigar,

the wrappers looked like they belonged to chocolate bars.

We were never close, but I liked you.

Then one day,

my mother picked me up late from summer camp.

She had been at the hospital,

she was with you when your mind shut down,

and your heavy heart 

failed.

*This a poem is about my Uncle, who died when I was ten. He wrote  poems  like I did, and was not liked within the family for awhile. We didn’t talk much but since I have been writing  I  feel  as  if  I  know  him  better. *