She is Alice/ecilA si ehS by Sam Brainard

She is Alice/ecilA si ehS

By: Sam Brainard (12th grade)

I am that sister languidly thumbing through an old volume beneath the tall tree,

And she, in all definition, is Alice.

I have watched her daydream every day for years, reading to her aloud,

Poetry I have studied in classes she never would take.

Her gaze—always chatoyant, Cheshire like, hunting for the next caterpillar—taking her on a trip,

Sending her back to Wonderland.

She needs another ephemeral dream to coax her from reality.

                And this, I could not give her with my verses and scriptures.

She is Alice—I am her sister

Scolded her for allowing the White Hare to take her away to dangerous places...

Worried over her, as the Queen ordered her head to be removed...

Cried when I found that she may never return from the rabbit hole.

I am the forbearance—she is the eager, the acquisitive, so ready for that next adventure.

We are a moiety, two parts of a whole,

Working against each other like a melody that ringing through jail houses and school halls.

She has the redolence of bad decisions, the attar of the Caterpillar's charm on her breath,

I cannot bring her from her reverie—she has chosen little blue dresses and Looking glass languages.

And I must watch from afar as she eats and drinks their mysteries.

I must watch from afar as she eats and drinks the mysteries, lost in serendipity,

The wherewithal gone—and I am so deathly and utterly alone.

Everyone else is murmurous, and I, murderous, screaming down that rabbit’s trap for my sister… to…

                                                please

                                                                come

                                                                                home.

Blind Date With a Book at the Mulberry Library!

Blind date with a book

A Commentary by: Ashley Rude

The Mulberry Public Library is hosting a Blind Date with a book and we need dedicated readers such as you to help those helpless books get a chance to be ‘dated’. All you have to do is come in; check out a book wrapped in brown paper, granted you won’t know what it is, and read away. It is for all teens so don’t be afraid to come on in and read your hearts out. I have already tried out a book or two and it is incredible.

I have read almost eight books already and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. It’s just for fun, so you don’t have to feel pressured into reading anything, it’s just for fun. Come on in, pick up a book, and let the book pull you into its yellow printed pages. Each page is a different world. And dating a different world is just as fun.

There is a prize for the one who reads the most ‘blind dates’. I won’t say much as to what the prize is only that it is a basket. Filled with what? Well, you’ll have to read in order to find out what mystery the basket holds, just like our books. Keep the bookmark you are given by Mulberry High School Library or the Mulberry Library, because that is your proof.

February 28^th is the due date! Hurry in!

                                                                              

Waiting for Teen Writers!

TEENS!!

Doo-dee-doo-doo-doo-doo-dee-doo, Doo-dee-doo-doo-DOOT-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo...

We are waiting for great writing from some of our fantastic teens! Interested?

Contact Ms. Sofia Simpson, Assistant Director of the Mulberry Library, at 863-425-3246 or by email, ssimpson@cityofmulberryfl.com.

Can't wait to see what you got floating around in those brilliant minds of yours!

Until then....