Part of my current job involves "playground duty" during which time I play, chat, and mitigate amongst about three-to-four-hundred elementary school kids. TODAY, however, was different.
Today was Poem in your Pocket day, and I spent all 20 minutes of my recess listening to kids read me poetry. All except the two minutes I had to break up a fight and the thirty seconds it took me to yell at some kids who were playing in a mud puddle.
The actually lined up to read their poems to me. It was a rare and gratifying experience as a poet.
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