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For twenty-five years, I’ve taught in a room with no windows. In the winter, I drive to school in the dark and go home in the dark. I call it submarine duty. Because the air-conditioning is broken, the thermometer on my desk...

Some of my students can only tell time if they have a digital clock. For them, there is only “now”, no indication of how many hours have past, or when the future will happen. Tell them to move clockwise or counter-clockwise and...

For C. Though she looked almost too gaunt, too ill, she was maid of honor for her sister determined to join, no matter she was frail —             talked in a whisper. When, once, the chronic fatigue lifted, she played the...

Irish from Cork County indentured — chattel like livestock, like slaves, with slaves — shipped to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell, their white legs sunburned to “red legs.”             Remember his head on that pole? Did it shed...

Now they can only see in their memory three hundred fine olive trees, grey-green leaves shaped like pea-pods near translucent in sun. They see green fruit hanging after being gifted by four-petal white flowers. They recall young...

Based on Irish myth & Mayan and Cherokee legend. Again he woke me. That mocking bird on the telephone line outside my window. His selection is long, one mimicked song, another, another. Phrases in echo of our local orchestra...

I yearn for the next windstorm on a morning I’m home for the sun’s rise so I can see the light dancing on the walls, floor and know you are here because we made an agreement you and I your last day, before you left I asked you...