Poetry

Help Wanted    Shane Koyczan

"What Teachers Make", by Taylor Mali, is a poem which talks about how teacher make difference in children. Teachers “make parents see their children for who they are and what they can be.”  They don’t work for the money, “teachers make a goddamn difference”, and teach them how to learn, and how to think. Taylor use first person point of view to talk about what teachers do in the life, because he is a teacher.




Wilderness, Depression, & Stars in the Night Jefferson Bethke

Be[lie]ve or [lie]

 

       If you don’t have any commitment for one person, what is you choose, believe he sad or think that is lie and bluffing him? “Buffing”, by Gail Helgason, it is a short story talk about two young people, Liam and Gabriella, who thing Liam run away to protect Gabriella or only himself. Lime and Gabriella live together. Gabriella is a biology teacher who can’t afford to rent the house all by her. So, she needs commitment from Liam to stay with her and share the rent for another one year. Gabriella arranges a hike with Liam, and talk about the rent. But they see a grizzly bear in the park, Gabriella sees that and said “Try backing off slowly” but Liam isn’t just stepping back. He was running away as fast as he could. After that, Gabriella sees Liam in the hospital; Liam said “You know I wasn’t trying to run away up there.” But Gabriella doesn’t believe that. When they see the beer, Gabriella is closer to the bear, but bear is chasing Liam because he ran away. Liam saves Gabriella, and he is in hospital now. He is a hero. He know when he is running, bear is chasing himself first, he may be die, but he is running, he want save Gabriella.

Dialogue

I anxiously stated, "I was sick with a fever last night!"

"But you look good now," replied Mr. Van Camp.

"Because I went to the hospital," I mumbled, "the doctor said my temperature was 45 degrees! So all last night I was on I.V. fluids."

"You can still work with an I.V. !"

I moaned, "But the I.V. was in my right hand so I couldn't write!"

"Why didn't you text with your left hand? You can still work with your left hand," Mr. Van Camp suggested.

"The nurse put ice on my head to make me feel cooler," I cried, "but in when the I.V. was down, the ice melted on my head! The water flowed down myself and my phone! It is broken!"

She must be dying

          Look at the picture; it is an old woman smoking in the picture. The old woman wears a large, brim, straw hat to show her face. Her frizzy grey hair is very dry, curly and short. In her face, the wrinkly skin looks like a busy city road in a Chinese rush hour; furthermore, the smoke looks like exhaust from the cars covers her busy face to the sky. Enjoyment makes her close her eyes. The patchy eye liner is on her closed eyes which make the eyes look big. The smoke looks like a cloud covering her wrinkled, pink lips. A cigarette is in her short finger nails. Masses of jewelry on her face: one blue turquoise ring, two silver rings, and two big pink flower earrings in her ears. A flower print shirt covers her body and one long necklace hangs around her neck. The big silver flowered necklace makes her neck appear skinny. Smoke makes her look too old. She sits on the chair because she has no strength to stand up. She must be dying.