2nd place category 1
Teddy Norris
FOR MY DISENGAGED INTRO TO POETRY STUDENT
I watch you in my early morning class:
twitchy with boredom, the yearning
for the opiate of your I-pod written on your face;
I can almost feel your fingers’ itch
to text someone, anyone, on your waiting cell.
This, while I yearn to have you understand
how even half a poem might knit a heart, explode
a head, memorialize the very hair of the dead,
of be the breaking news.
*************************************************
Teddy Norris
FOR MY DISENGAGED INTRO TO POETRY STUDENTI watch you in my early morning class:
twitchy with boredom, the yearning
for the opiate of your I-pod written on your face;
I can almost feel your fingers’ itch
to text someone, anyone, on your waiting cell.
This, while I yearn to have you understand
how even half a poem might knit a heart, explode
a head, memorialize the very hair of the dead,
of be the breaking news.
*************************************************
Read the rest of this winning poem, the other winning poems and honorable mentions. These poems and many others submitted to the contest will be published in a chapbook.
My poem " The Interior Decorator" received an honorable mention.
Wordgathering
A Journal of Disability PoetryVolume 4 Issue 2 July 2010
