Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Subjects From My Past

Photography
	I used to have a dark room.
Trigonometry.
	No reference, the word causes anxiety though.
Anthropology
	I used to live for this subject, imagining myself in Egypt on a dig.
Art.
	I dabble, four hundred paintings later, I have no idea what I am doing.
English.
	Worst 7th grade teacher ever, but I like it in spite of that ridiculous time.
PreAlgebra
	No memory of this whatsoever, and glad of it.
Homemaking.
	The only parts I liked were the sewing and the eating after the cooking.
Reading.
	I can sit in a treehouse all day long, devouring a stack of books happily while
              Choking down my favorite sandwich – peanut butter, Miracle Whip and lettuce.
Poetry.
	Love the cadence of it. Never have understood it.  Apparently I do not have to.

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Gershon Wolf September 4, 2018 at 11:43 PM As Red Skelton used to say: "We just do 'em. We don't explain 'em." … Poetry, shmoetry … O'boy'etry… How's that for cadence, shmadence? ~ gw Caren Krutsinger September 5, 2018 at 10:10 AM Thanks for noticing my favorite parts!

Rhona Mcferran September 4, 2018 at 7:39 AM I can so relate to this, especially the math anxiety/ selective amnesia. ha! And I adore that last line"apparently I do not have to"... lovely! Caren Krutsinger September 5, 2018 at 10:10 AM Thank you Rhona. I am getting rather daring in my seasoned age.