Friday, February 17, 2012

A Few More Words About Standardized Tests

As I stapled the last
standardized practice test
my mind went numb.

I stared through glass
onto Middle Avenue and
a bank of grey clouds

who cast peculiar shadows
onto abandoned storefronts.
I thought of my son, 8

years old, bored by instruction
regarding how to properly
pencil in the bubbles.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Important Discovery

Long ago
I found that
skateboard wheels
on pavement
sound like waves,
and sometimes
have the effect
of erasing
all other thought.