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The Voices of My Teachers

Beauty and the SensesPoetry

Gun shot echoing off the walls

A beam of lazy sunlight

A rust-red squeaky door

A slowly winding river

Teeth grinding rocks

The deep scratch of chairs

Moving stones with your tongue

Mint fluoride gargle in your throat

Pine needles in a sock

A weathered summer shirt

The drone of a fridge

The timid chirping of birds

A crow’s restless caw caw

A murmuring streambed hiding

A razor tipped rock

The sharp clip clop of high heels on bricks

A teacher’s soothing voice broken by china

Lulu Rasor is a 12-year-old middle school student from Yarmouth, Maine.

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