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Nature Poem

by James Brush on May 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments

My students freeze—
how out of place

that slope-intercept
equation on the whiteboard

in this literature class.
Scrawled in blue, graphed

and correctly worked.
It’s poetry, I tell them.

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2 Responses to “Nature Poem”

  1. mark says:

    Poetry can be more than just words jumbled together, I think. You *cough, cough* illustrated this nicely.

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