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the sorting hat

Like Harry Potter, the sorting hat (my mom)
has placed me in a bloody, crimson colored school.
It’s disorienting, as I go about, the logos are wack.

Poor little rich girl
no beachside lovers
this interminable, scorching summer.

I’m swept up by scholastic spirit.
Can you hear it? Cause it’s deafening me,
on this cool, dry, Boston orientation day.

As we finished our morning 8k jog,
the sunrise blossomed, painting hot lava clouds
with hues of yellow, orange and pink.

We’re traipsing unfamiliar paths,
It’s not what we’re used to, the roads are uneven
and the architecture’s all boxy and wrong.
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Songs for this:
New Toy by Lene Lovich
Better After All by Jonatha Brooke
Now At Last by Feist

Copyright © Anais Vionet | Year Posted 2025

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Kim Rodrigues Date: 5/30/2025 12:24:00 PM Congrats on POTD! The sorting hat…my mom! Everything is wrong! Perhaps you’ll get uswd to it! A Fave! Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/30/2025 5:54:00 PM Thanks. I'm already getting used to it, sorta. =]

Brandy Nicole Date: 5/29/2025 5:44:00 PM ' the sunrise blossomed with hues of yellow, orange and pink. ' Can I see it ? Yes, I can. Such a beautiful image. Congratulations on all your accomplishments, and, on receiving Poem of the Day. My best to you, Anais. Hugs, Brandy Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:04:00 PM Thank you! Poem of the day?! I had no idea =]

John Lawless Date: 5/29/2025 1:48:00 PM well the streets of the city were all cowpaths to and through the Common. Good luck in the "PRC" (People's Republic of Cambridge Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:05:00 PM Thank you! I'm so new at it that I don't know my way around (thank god there's an app for that) =]

Paula Goldsmith Date: 5/29/2025 11:53:00 AM Congratulations on your POTD win. I enjoyed reading your wonderful write. Have a blessed day writing away........ Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:06:00 PM Thank you! You're too kind. I'm shocked (poem of the day).

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 5/29/2025 10:12:00 AM - Congratulations and good luck, Anais :) - hugs Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:06:00 PM Thank you so much!

I Am Anaya Date: 5/29/2025 9:07:00 AM First of all Anais, congraduations on your accomplishments @ Yale! "What’s next?" oh yeah and matriculation. You look fab in crimson and good hair helps! Big win for Harvard -->Trump is blocked from banning foreign students! Yay ~ Congrats on POTD! Ovation !Veritas! Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:09:00 PM Thank you! You're too kind (hair). As if the President of the United States has the authority to order a high school around. If there were any law anymore, the Bill of Attainder Clause of the U.S. Constitution prevents the governmant (or President) from singling out Apple or Harvard for special punishments.

Daniel Henry Rodgers Date: 5/29/2025 5:33:00 AM Dear Anais, your words ache of newness, O that crimson school, the off-kilter logos, the heat of a summer that refuses to end. I feel your longing for the familiar, your quiet courage as you jog through Boston’s alien dawn. Even in dissonance, you find beauty. I’m proud of you for your honesty, your spirit, the way you transform uncertainty into poetry. Congrats on POTD. Spring Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:11:00 PM What a wonderful comment. Thank you, you're very kind. =]

Tom Woody Date: 5/29/2025 4:58:00 AM From Yale to Harvard. Poor little rich girl (sniff). Here's to wishing you a studious summertime full of books and midnight cram sessions. Enjoy POTD day Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:13:00 PM Thanks, Tom. I can already soo that this year will be VERY different. =]

Karen Jones Date: 5/29/2025 12:54:00 AM My favorite verse it the fourth as it is so imaginative and colorful! Great job on an engaging potd! Congratulations! Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:14:00 PM Thank you, POTD was a huge surprise. =]

Quoth Theraven Date: 5/28/2025 5:21:00 PM Anais, Wonders in a sorting hat, though crimson may not suit as well as pale Yale blue. Oh man, what a voice from a Feisty Leslie'd heart. Perhaps a perfect choice for Boston. -Richard Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:15:00 PM Thanks, Richard! =]

Vincine Fallica Date: 5/27/2025 7:02:00 AM Geeze! You ever think about running away to the circus? I hear there’s good ones in Europe. (Still got a ‘story’ waiting for you in Quora.) Login to Reply Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:16:00 PM No, I'd be scooping elephant poop, I have no skills! I answered - sorry it took so long. =]

Chris Conn Date: 5/27/2025 6:34:00 AM Love that profile pic. Could I get a signed copy? Do you have names for those two poignant and elegant elbows? Login to Reply Chris Conn Date: 5/31/2025 3:23:00 PM I'd go with Smith and Wesson. You'd look sharp in nothing but deerskin chaps and strawberry lipgloss. Anais Vionet Date: 5/29/2025 8:17:00 PM I've never been complemented on my elbows before! Ha! =] Thanks.