Elderberry Wine Vintage 2010

<i>Elderberry Wine Vintage 2010</i> is an anthology of student writing from the Mature Learning Program at Clark College in Vancouver Washington offers something for everyone. The pieces in this collection range from Poetry-sonnets and haiku free verse meter and rhyme; to fiction both fanciful and serious; and nostalgia for the past and visions of the future.Come along on adventures in a swampy town in the American South in the 1930s an apartment building in the squalid northwest Portland of the 1970s and the lair of a drug lord in the Caribbean of the 1980s. Exploring all manner of topics from the natural world to the lives of houses to human life and aging this collection presents a wide range of unique views and perspectives on life with something for everyone.<i><b>Looking for Love</b>The little green lizard struts across the woman's porch railing with a proprietary air then suddenly stops and flicks down a flap of vermilion colored skin from his throat and freezes in place. He bobs his head up and down several times before moving on.Wordless-soundless but with such eloquence of expression does he signal his desire for a mate that without conscious intent the woman touches fingers to her throat then catches herself and with a rueful smile nods back. Herb Stokes long-time creative writing student</i>