Teacher’s Back

Under the cover of darkness, or in the blaze of mid-day, there are the brief encounters with the teacher: the real teacher. When we are young or when we are misinformed, the lessons are ignored or avoided. As though that final test could be dismissed, no thank you, I prefer not. It cannot be dismissed. Under the cover of darkness, when we are most exposed, or in the blaze of mid-day, when we least expect it, we are offered these little practice sessions. Just listen! It is Guará come back not to haunt, and neither to taunt, but to instruct.



Poem the Shape of an Egg – Mark Schultz

Poem the Shape of an Egg
It is the door I return to
and must pass through
 
though my heart burst
and my body become a sigh
 
I am a room
between there and there
 
my breath will not follow
beyond the walls
 
my breath is a wave
that reaches the shore
 
though my heart burst
and the wave dissolve like a sigh
 
my hand lifts the latch
and nothing grows
 
if I look out on nothing
does my room freeze in time
do we imagine darkness
because time turns the world
 
since light has always been
a single ray burns all of this
 
ashes at the door
of my impossibility
 
fear is the ice
melts in a flicker of light
 
I have walked to this door
many times
 
every time
the way is shorter
 
there is no other
from here there is only
 
out

 

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