What Crosses My Mind

  • School Doors Knocking

    I can hear the sound at night, the clasp when the handle shakes as the door slams shut. This is not an offensive sound, simply the mechanics of the entry to my classroom. Tonight, while I lay in bed, having usurped the beauty of summer’s heat, my head is gradually shifting, a knowing, necessary accentuate…

  • A Teacher’s Lament

    Where to now the speaker suggests, wondering how to run away, or perhaps the willingness to stay is stronger than any of their behests. ~ We live lives mapped on calendars those we glance to progress trying to maximize less all in the nature of being their mentors. ~ How quickly we notice the summer…

  • Proud These Tears

    There was that moment, when standing, holding court together, we merged our simple lives, with smiles, I’ve watched you grow, a calculated beautiful person, we all knew you were from day one, when I held you in my hands, 6:38 PM, my life changed that day, and yet I still managed to be human, on far…

  • The truth about rape, and young teenage boys …

    (I’m posting this because of the current reaction to a national case of two female teachers being arrested for having sex with a 16 year old student. I am not condoning rape in any sense of the term, but in my examining this current event, this video spoke to me. There are certain triggers in…

  • The Arms of Compassion

    In the season of autumn when needs do shift summer’s recreation begins a gradual wane; lives are soon measured in orchestrated assemblies. Their eyes come in fogged by the shock crickets will sound in the evening sky. ~ Hold on one more moment before our hearts begin our next chapter, the rite of passage a…

  • I Teach

    *** August smiles, brilliant fall colors give pastel accents to carve a path home. ~ Aging, beauty to present a state of mind delightful, happy, invigorates our energy. ~ For now reflection is immediate only a moment’s glance suggests sweet shelter. ~ Doors will open anticipation screams through the distant halls recalled, fresh, familiar. ~ new faces,…

  • Door Knockers (A Rewrite)

    I’m a non-white, illegal immigrant, African-American, Jewish Orthodox, Buddhist (Door slams) Indian, Slavic, Islamic, Mexican-American, (Bolts clasped [from the inside]) Jehov … #nameyourprejudice (Soft whispers trail off into the quiet afternoon) … ~ Behind closed doors Our world is safe now As long as what we fear Stays outside in the general public’s eye ~…

  • Knock, Knock

    I’m a non-white, illegal immigrant, African-American, Jewish Orthodox, Buddhist (Door slams) Indian, Slavic, Islamic, Mexican-American, (Bolts clasped [from the inside]) Jehov … #nameyourprejudice (Soft whispers trail off into the quiet afternoon) … ~ Behind closed doors Our world is safe now As long as what we fear Stays outside in the general public’s eye ~…