Memory Throws a Last-Minute Curveball
your name, the punchline,
why I'm standing in this room --
all veer out of reach
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019
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Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Franki and Mary Lee are both teachers, and have been for more than 20 years.
Franki is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Beyond Leveled Books (Stenhouse), Still Learning to Read (Stenhouse), and Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop (Scholastic).
Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Good lord. I ended up standing in the main office last week looking sheepishly at the administrative assistant, not knowing AT ALL the reason I had arrived in that place at that time until I climbed all the way back to my room, and then it was all clear to me, so I wrote my reason on a slip of paper and trundled back down to the office again. Your haiku seems almost like it came from a fortune cookie.
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ReplyDeleteBeen here done this many times!
ReplyDeleteRight there with you, my friend!
ReplyDeleteI hope you like my line in the Progressive Poem! Can't wait to read yours!
I love this - it's COMPLETELY right for today.
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