Windows – Siskiyou Writers’ Club

When you look out of your window, what do you see?
Is it concrete and city or forests and trees.

How does your view make you feel?
Nervous and oppressed or alive and real.

Cities are colored in shades of grey.
Concrete buildings, sidewalks, and streets that are paved.

Country is colored in vivid hues.
Yellows, reds, whites, and blues.

City living is all hustle, Bussel, and having to move quick.
Only acknowledging those in your own click.

It’s standing in a crowd while pretending to be alone.
Surrounded by strangers who’re little more than clones.

Country living means breathing fresh clean air.

So, Inhale deep and long without concern or care.

Country means seeing meadows, forests, rivers, and streams.
It means seeing flowers and grassland with everything green.

Without humanity’s congestion your neighbors become known.
And your whole community becomes your home.

You can guess which place I’d rather be.
Looking out my window at what I see.

By Jess W. Ward

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The Siskiyou Writers Club is open to folks with a passion for creative writing of all genres. We
generally meet the last Thursday of the month in various locations throughout Siskiyou County.
You are welcome to join us. For more information about the club, contact Bob Kaster, 530-598-
5204, email [email protected], or Mike Grifantini, 530-710-4882, email
[email protected].

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