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| by Frank Brunner |
You like to tap a tree right when it wakes,
as March disrobes the woods, summer all day,
regret all night, when old bark breaks new cracks
and the fevered hot-cold-dark-light pumps the sap–
Just so, schools try to tap the kids who grow
the sweetest. Teachers pick those burned at home
and cooled in class. When all the kids are sitting
still as maples, plastic tubes draw out
what the world needs, or needs kids not to have.
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Frank Brunner teaches high school physics in the Adirondack Mountains, where he lives with his wife, children, and a giant Newfoundland dog. The Newfie occasionally joins Frank in the classroom to help demonstrate inertia. Unlike Byron, Frank has never substituted a bear for his Newfie and terrorized the campus.
