A poem penned while substitute teaching at a local high school
These high school students--What does he know? they may
think or say of me.
They know much
beyond algebraic equations
and Latin and Macbeth.
They know how to navigate
learning institutions
and peer complexities
and the disequilibrium of growing
dis-equally in different directions
at the same time.
What do we know?
Little.
And much.
May they--may we--dare to continue
to learn and know
and grow.
