Ms. Krantz's second grade class for gifted learners was a very harsh place. Jenny wore her brother's green shirt with a pocket on the front to school that day and, in doing so, matched three of the boys in her class. Not exactly the best way to start off the year with the girls in her class; those girls did not wear boy shirts. Gifted kids ( Read more... )

Drifting by on sweet white snowflakes ( Read more... )

I was mistaken for a tree branch
by an unambitious sloth.
It took nearly two weeks
just to shake him off.
And when I did, he glared
and started up again,
in hope of finding
a better branch
than me.

  Lime green Converse sneakers laced up to the top. Corduroy overalls accidentally tucked in on side of my right leg. One solitary sideways braid, frizzy, and awkwardly positioned on the side of my head. I peek over the wooden bench where I had been hiding, hiding while digging for dinosaur bones in the dirt on my elementary playground. Steven told ( Read more... )

I don't feel like you've been in this for a long time.
That you've simply been biding time.
 

yeah right now but not that often.


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if you knew everything they thought i bet you'd wish that they'd just shut up ( Read more... )

With sparks that ring and bullets fly.

-I really need to figure out where I am going to work this summer.-

can we will our worst fears into existance merely by worrying too much about them?

life springs from bone ( Read more... )

have been seconds.