The Dream Artist as a Preschool Teacher
There is a place
Where a line of tall eucalyptus trees
Stand in twilight.
A path runs along beside them.
Somewhere near is a park with a wooden game
Where you put a golf ball through
A maze of baffle walls and dowels.
There are triggers which:
Set other balls in motion
Change the position of obstacles
Make sounds occur.
Today I found six ball bearings and
Thought of how they would be perfect
for the balls in a small model
of the dream apparatus.
I could use some springs
And other parts
From the typewriter
We are dismantling
In my preschool class.
Hide and Seek: The Story
A ghost flies down to the city
drifts to a house
knocks on the door
nobody comes
the ghost goes in
looks in cupboards, on shelves
no one to chase
the ghost looks under the table
Where many people are hiding
and the game is on
as the story ends
The Hard Sciences
Is it warm or cold?
Does it smell of the earth or taste sharp like electricity?
Will it have an engine or be pushed
By legs or pulled
Down a hill
By gravity?
Could you launch it into a cloud or
Drop it from space to burn
Through the atmosphere?
Can you crawl inside it and dream?
“It’s a river in the ocean,” says the child
Letter Play
A’s an ace
just in case
B’s bees see C’s
and seize C’s on the seas
as D’s do with Ease
and E’s do in threes.
Unlike f,
in which letter and sound are the same,
G says Gee sometimes
but not in goggle, gaggle, or game.
H is not the sound.
H is a name.
I eyes
with I’s eyes
Jay J walking
with Jamie and Jake
and riding with L on the El
to Em’s M, short for Emily’s embrace.
They all end up later with N
over at NunziO’s place.
Oh! for an O
so round, so oblong,
owing to going
out Oing too long.
P’s are pieces of peas and pees,
and as we are taught to mind peas and queues
Q’s take cues
and line up there too.
Arrghs! Come from pirates
R’s come in the bottoms of jars
and are held incarcerated by bars.
S’s make stresses
and end up in messes,
but they also come
at the end of
caresses and blesses.
T’s take tea and tease.
while the ewes use the U’s
by the old yew trees.
and where does that leave us
Vis a vis V’s.
W is two V’s really, it’s clear.
two U’s would look more
wobbly for sure.
There are excess x’s
axis needs it
and access doesn’t
and X’s sometimes sound like Z’s
I think they must be cousints.
Y’s use whys to become wise
The big ones tend to stand in alarm
They hold in their thighs
and stretch up their arms.
The Z’s are disease
and nobodies friend.
Now the letters are done
and that is the end.
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