Category Archives: poetry

Year in Review: March 2010

March was a busy month with a lot on its strange and springy mind. March 1 – March 31 We started our new class calendar. We thought of six things (watermelon, shamrock, butterfly, fire hat, rainbow, and heart) and made … Continue reading

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Year in Review: February 2010

I My Life At the coop school, my shrinking class was planning a garden project, and I was doing a lot of writing and thinking about my work with children. February is often for me a  passage way that connects … Continue reading

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In Motion

Hard Roundness forms undercut grasps and clings to darker patches Locked in the knot unable to fall back slowly spread onto cushion night steel light beyond waits the glint of a blade shivers of radiance on waves at dawn blood … Continue reading

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Dream on an October Night

Ghost rides that whip sprung from the blood of day onto the back of a long thin howl.

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Two Poems by Bukowski: Words for the Long Journey

Our family is graduating my youngest son from High School as a home schooler (where did those years go?), and I was trying to find words to say that fit what I wanted to tell him about going out in … Continue reading

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