"Patterns: An Abecedarian" by Lucie Hollon (Lincoln County)

At a camp in Union, Maine, 
Behind the cream-colored canvas tents a 
Circle of campers exchange candy-stripes and vees, 
Dangling their legs from off a stump. They are 
Enveloped in stories 
From home. Soon 
Gusts of autumn wind will 
Huff over the solemn peace of wood as fall awaits 
Icy winter. 
Jagged flakes of snow clumsily clutter together, cascading from a 
Kaleidoscope sky, birds 
Lazily drift with the clouds, littering the ground with 
Mottled spots of shade. 
No person dares venture here in the 
Ongoing storms of spring, 
Pretty little flowers squashed by violent droplets of water, 
Queer and peculiar creatures 
Rustling about until 
Summer arrives and 
The golden rays emerge from 
Under frost and 
Vicious rain 
Which wets the grass and 
X-es through the ice, allowing the 
Yellow and vibrant summer to 
Zip back into the lake, awaiting campers once more.

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Lucie Hollon wrote her poem, “Patterns”, as a 7th grader at Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb, Maine. The poem describes what Lucie imagined one beloved place might look like throughout the year. In her free time, Lucie studies dance and voice, and participates in musicals through the Boothbay Y-Arts program. She also performs with the traveling Jr. Theater Festival team from Boothbay Harbor, Maine.