School Lines Poems

I stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor...

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A dawning twilight's me. Oh, joy. Oh, what a joy. This day. Oh, what a day. A breath bestills my eyes and I, e'er slight,...

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When I was young…working with crayons…no matter the design…
my teacher was adamant…when it came to coloring…one must stay within the lines.

And I tried to color...

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They say that "God writes straight with crooked lines"
we seek control, but perhaps that confines
God's Will, Plan, compassionate designs
it's up to Him, the One who...

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I shaved my legs this morning. “Alexa, put dinosaur Band-Aids on my shopping list.”

Once you get in the college routine, time speeds up
One minute you’re...

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Their prejudice is embedded in their words, tucked away
Putting a damper on your pride
A laugh and a smile and a claim that it was “just...

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Lines,
Not of cocaine,
Not of paint, 
Or kids,
Lines of blood. 
After the emotions have built a fire in my body
Large enough that it's a 5 Alarm
Alarming....

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Yale’s friday “spring fling” was a soggy success - both as a concert and super spreader event. My groove-spirit was dampened by weather and a...

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If being and the world
are one and the same
Then thinking and thoughts
are together to name
With freedom and consciousness
semantically fused
All judgment and will
—symbiotically cued 

(Baldwin School:...

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Born to the best mom on this beautiful mother earth
I was little luckier then the rest
Simply successful school life
Followed by flourishing fun at college
Getting married...

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born into country life to two ordinary parents
raised protestant and to be a good girl
high school came, peer pressure, virgin no more with high school...

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I worry we co-invest in big private and public corporate assault
on Earth,
on environmentalism,
on longer-term ecologic.

Really, honey?
That's too bad.
Why not also see long-term assault
as the unintended...

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1.  The most important day of my life was birth,
  2.  and the day I got married, oh, that was amazing.
 ...

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The flag glides upward in slow motion.
Days have the lucky teachers rehearsed
For this honorable day of the country.
We, children have sung until we go hoarse
No...

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I embrace the line of fleeting moments
Seated on the wings of homeward pelicans
Where the setting sun still waves to say 
Orange goodbyes until tomorrow

At my...

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