A Love Double-Take

School
George Washington Carver Primary School

Poet in Residence
Fullamusu Bangura

Date

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:

School
George Washington Carver Primary School

Poet in Residence
Fullamusu Bangura

Date

Untitled 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

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