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Back-to-School* Pandemic Poem #2
Posted on March 11, 2021
originally written 9.2.20 *remote six a.m. and coffeecoffeecoffee to seven or eight post meridian Eyes glossy and bloodshot from the night before learning not how to slay aliens and other things But how to Zoom without crashing and burning and how do I know my eyes are glossy and bloodshot? Because Zoom tells me.
Words Don’t Wait
Posted on October 21, 2020
Funny thing about writing–once you shift from seeing your days as minutes and hours to moments and emotions, you get no say in who, what, where, when, and why story fragments show up.đź“šTrying to stop the words until you’re ready, with paper, pencil, peace, and a perfectly poured cup of coffee only makes them tumble […]
Teacher Pandemic Poem #2
Posted on July 22, 2020 1 Comment
Our last class discussion
was devoted
to calming the fears
of eleven year olds
Teacher Pandemic Poem #1
Posted on July 20, 2020
The children you want to send to my classroom
in the fall
are not
the same children who left my classroom
in the winter.
