Rebel Girl is still on the lookout for the ideal Valentine's Day poem but until then here is another about teaching, learning, writing, being.
A poem by D. Nurske, from his book The Rules of Paradise.
This first appeared in the August 1990 issue of Poetry.
First Grade Homework
The child’s assignment:
“What is a city?”
All dusk she sucks her pencil
while cars swish by
like ghosts, neighbors’ radios
forecast rain, high clouds,
diminishing winds: at last
she writes: “The city is everyone.”
Now it’s time
for math, borrowing and exchanging,
the long discipleship
to zero, the stranger,
the force that makes us
what we study: father and child,
writing in separate books,
infinite and alone.
The SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — "[The] blog he developed was something that made the district better." - Tim Jemal, SOCCCD BoT President, 7/24/23
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3 comments:
Lovely.
Lonely, dark. I like it.
"infinite and alone." I like that.
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