Selection In the Poetry Class

SELECTION IN THE POETRY CLASS Sometimes teacher selects a student to explain His grey ignorance of the text - These verses are tiring, confusing, puzzling? Guilty, he mentally shades in the last lines Having never read them during lesson. Eyes fixed on task - memorise, memorise. He rises very slowly, Like a plant growing imperceptibly taller. Or a cripple not yet introduced to Divinely miraculous medicine. Or a defence counsel finding his feet For his summing-up in this difficult case – Subtle arguments, shades of grey. Everything is just black and white in Alabama. 24 April 2021