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
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