Archive for August, 2009

First Day of School

Monday, August 31st, 2009

First teaching nightmare of the year last night. I was with my new reading class on the first day of school. The classroom was awful- sort of a stage, science lab combination, and the kids were jammed together in chairs that were practically on top of each other. The kids wouldn’t stay [...]

Raw Footage

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Poised on edge
Eyes blazing in a dark face
Siamese cat stands watching
Dazed and confused
Broken leg stretched out
Rabbit hops toward deadly danger
At my window
I know this rabbit’s life is done
I wonder if I will hear him scream
Cat springs and they roll together
Rabbit’s scream choked off at birth
All over in a moment, and then
Cat triumphant seizes prey [...]