Hello, How Are You, Goodbye

By Connor Schenk

A collection of 25 poems that span the course of the author's time studying English at Western Washington University. From the topic of nature to the topic of social justice, these works take the reader though the tribulations of depression, helplessness, frustration, and the relief of seeing it through to the other side. Goodbyes aren't always how we imagined them when we first said hello, but they're always what they were meant to be.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543973068

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ISBN: 9781543973068

Special thanks…

To my mother and grandmother for making me feel worthy of writing,

To my God who guided my hands,

To my peers who molded me,

To my professors who helped me mold myself.

And to you, the reader.

Table of Contents

Hello

On The Pacific

Brink of Fall

Ode to Pilgrim

In Winter’s Time

Quartet and Me

The Rock on Which I Stand

A Father Always Knows

How Are You

Fire Licks the Feet

Two Million

Cyan

But I Thought

Gravity

I Am Sitting Here

Hollow

In ‘Other’ News

Stress

Out Shopping for Groceries

The Headlines Forgot

Preservation

It’s Finally Been Said

Goodbye

Devastation

Mental

Sincerely

Cosmic Goodbye

When You Go Home

Hello

On The Pacific

I’d never seen such glory

Stars draped in the sky

On the ocean, the world is halved

Heaven reflected on Earth

Stars draped in the sky

In no way modest or coy

Heaven reflected on Earth

This boat rests in polished crystal

In no way modest or coy