Classroom anxiety

By Danny Villarreal

   

 

   

     Ideas on a board

     Scrawled with wisdom

     Shaking heads

     Moving hands

     Fluctuating voice

     She moved like a leaf

     Slowly carried

     On soft currents

     Of air and heat

     Fighting gravity

     Peer pressure

     The sound of

     A heart beating...

     A lung breathing...

     Sighing mouths

     Lay open

     Like ashtrays

     Left too long

     In the sun

     -D

 

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