Tagged: school
perhaps they have been
perhaps they have been
waiting for this moment,
placing the onus
of a child’s
learning on his or her
circumstances, family,
life choices – as
if there were already
choices – the curriculum
is here,
get online,
in line,
aligned
with our program
.
20200522:0422
y
we are waiting for
we are waiting for
the school bus to come back down the
hill, borrowing warmth
from inside our home just moments
before, stubbornly growing
.
20180830:0803
y
** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: stubbornly
one in eight children
one in eight children
are traumatized by
that early morning
realization of missing
the school bus. it
still sneaks into
our slumber, the
mechanical stop-
sign arm, that air
brake sigh, the
unmistakable
national school
bus chrome,
shrinking in
the distance
.
20160531:0755
y
between you and me
between you and me
is a conversation, waiting
to be sharpened, for
our fingers to get dirty,
emptying that old-school hand crank
.
20151210:0654
y
in primary school
in primary school
we learned to cut around the
heart – nine times out of
ten, to find it correctly
required repeated folding
.
20140621:2237
y
autumn is summer’s
flitting silver in
flitting silver in
the depth of
space, stars
or a school of fish
that once were
.
20130721:1027
y
we lined up for inspection –
we lined up for inspection –
elbows and knees knobbly,
eyes nervous, reserved,
a stifled giggle or two.
back then, we were
so good at conforming,
it is a wonder that our
spines were in question
.
20120503:0846
y
decked out to the
decked out to the
nines, such embroidered
encounters,
flirtatious
like a flashing shoal
.
20100801:1555
y
y 