Friday, February 14, 2014

On Teaching

Sugar enriched days
call for aggressive lesson planning.

I chose today,
Valentine's Day,
to run poetry stations,
exploring a few different forms.

Lyric, ballad, sonnet, tanka, free verse; I
Observed
Victory in
Excess:

fifteen
fifteen year-olds
focusing on erased papers in front of them,
holding their hands a few inches in the air,
counting syllables on their fingers.

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