A row of children
standing still, mouths agape
a single line,
rimming the schoolyard
berm at the edge of the blacktop
staring, as one, the playground in white
frost on the mulch, the slide, the swings
all in white; wow!
October 21, 2008
yesterday at Pembroke Village School
(Raymond A. Foss)
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