Hello again, dear reader. This week’s Carver session took place on Valentine’s Day, and what better way to celebrate than to read poems we love together? Students learned a little bit about June Jordan, then read her poem “On My Love” and commented on how familiar the poem felt. One students shared that she is a big Rudy Fransisco fan, so we read his poem “Mess.” Finally, students shared some of their own favorite poems that they’ve written over the years. Check out one of them below:
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by Ka’Mya M.
My well being is as disposable as paper
My motivation soft and fragile like
scott scotch scotch scotch
I think you’ll grow to drink scotch
Your voice
Your fingers
Skipped past my cell tower this morning
So the fact that your phone was broken in a dumpster past Alcopoco
tramples over my thoughts of breakfast
my name
your name
the name
We
gave
me
floating beneath your throat lost
behind all the important things
carries enough weight in my stomach
to be
full
My water bottle is empty
but us speaking
breathing
out all the words combusted in my head
is enough to fill the rest of the bottle
