Samantha Davis Winter Wondersky

SAMANTHA DAVIS, NORTH IOWA HIGH SCHOOL 1st Place in Poetry, Top of Iowa High School Writing Contest

Winter Wondersky

When the sun is in the sky And river streaming lightly by I sit and wonder at the shrouds Of abstract shapes inside the clouds.

Up there the flowers and the trees Are swarmed by ivory bumble bees Who sniff the flowers, white as snow And birches pale, as birches go.

The owls glide atop it all Until their structures sink and fall And form a different kind of shape Appearing as an icy cape.

While every snowy rabbit hops Through wintery fields and only stops When arctic foxes float around And then they cease to make a sound.

It’s humid on this summer day Although it seems the creatures play In fields of snow that freshly fell Of summer’s heat they cannot tell.

So when they’re nowhere to be found Upon the lush and grassy ground I simply look into the sky Where owls, bees, and foxes lie.

Contributors

Tim Bascom has written 40 short stories like the one published here-“Rocky Mountain Make Believe”--and those father-son tales are available in his newest book Climbing Lessons (Light Messages Press). You can purchase Climbing Lessons at amazon.com or order it from a local bookstore. Bascom, author of four earlier books, served as Waldorf’s Director of Creative Writing for six years.

Elaine Bossard is a faculty member in the Psychology Department. Always ready to learn new skills, expand her perspective, and have some fun doing so, she enrolled in her first (but not necessarily last) creative writing class in Spring 2020. Two children and 30 chickens at home help to maintain her work-life balance.

Gretchen Burnette is a senior at Waldorf University with a major in English and a minor in Art. In her free time she loves photography and hanging out with friends.

Shannon Clark is a Waldorf alumna. After graduating in December of 2018 with a Communications Degree for graphic design and journalism, she started her career as a Marketing Coordinator at MWI Components in Spencer, IA. Shannon is also a freelance photographer and enjoys creating unique portraits in her free time. Miss Clark is proud to call Waldorf her second home and is grateful to her professors for creating opportunities for her future.

Savanna Cordle is a senior at Waldorf University, majoring in business marketing and management with minors in communication and Spanish. Although she is from a small town in Minnesota, she enjoys traveling around the globe. She also loves volunteering, through clubs such as Rotaract, on campus

Samantha Davis is a senior at North Iowa High School. She will be majoring in Secondary English Education and minoring in Creative Writing. When she is not writing, she enjoys running in Track, participating in the Spring Musical, and devouring one book after another.

Rachel Dreeszen is a senior at Waldorf University, majoring in history with a minor in political science. She grew up in Northwest Iowa and hopes to bust out of the small midwest state. Rachel participates in several clubs on campus and enjoys being outside as much as possible.