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Elegy for an English Teacher

How her pin curls would quiver,

punctuation too eloquent for words.

Tonight the lightning diagrams a sentence

of cantilevered complexity:

in a single stroke it divides the dark

into subject and predicate.

Now it starts over on the darker verso of the page.

Remember how she fed us that word?

On the mouthful of gristle that was soliloquy,

we choked. In a blizzard of chalk dust,

she filled the blackboard, ...

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