Out of Wild

How could it be everything it is not
minus I guess check minus
about the standards not seen
right there in front
your faces children inspectors
about our work or what
needs to be harvested what needs
to be burned too late out of control.

Data Squared

By more than stupidity
questioned by bandy-legged
vets their basement room under
old school building near office
it was cool then staggeringly small
rough back outside in all that brightness
they made a neat million quite nicely.

Gotta Get It Back

Rosetta stone finally shone
bright bothering desert
packed and unpacked
to get there to a place
regular road like Sutherlin
recalls scratched out chopped
expanse with too much between
downtime of the major extraction
minor participation a page
from the student planner
actually page one is all about
recognizing unexploded ordinances
bombs in other words before
the three pages about bullying
after the spell check on my hometown.

Nothing Better

Amazing ingredients
all in one poem
each detail a vitamin
to support the whole body
delicious find I'm forever
ever in its aftermath
struck dumb but swimming.

Agenda

I was not asked but given the agenda
immediately a big chunk of our time
I mean a short chunk I'm hoping you'll
have a code today to register or see me
during break I'd feel really good to have
you registered when I walk out of here
today. The biggest bulk of our time
back in our level groups benefit to see
some alignment in those level groups
to unpack one of your embedded
assessments. At the end of the day
writer workshops only live online
what needs to happen within Springboard
you'll get swag a bag and a poster of all
strategies I hang mine up to remind them.

Flim Flam Shim Sham

Data oh data gathered beneath my feet my hands
data data what have you been up to
since last year when I got into trouble
asking the question I was not supposed to ask
about you about the data it came up a problem
came up within all the data turning it false upside
down the data became rusty rusted it was solid
as spring ice melting dissolving into a smudge
in the history of the world this watery world.

Blither Blather

Did I submit all my data
to the growing pile worried
proving my inadequacy worried
deficiency in the system worried
calls forth another era worried
other than this unregulated ocean
nowhere else with nothing but.