PoetryRepairShop welcomes submissions for its Classroom Issue, June 2004. The guest editor is Michael Paul Ladanyi. Please interpret this call broadly. If someone has influenced or encouraged your work, whether by critique, example or perhaps a kind word, or if you have done the same for someone else, please submit works from each of you. Each poet should include prose comments about the teacher/student relationship among poets. Contact Michael Paul Ladanyi editor_ladanyi@poetryrepairs.zzn.com Find prior Classroom Issue at http://www.poetryrepairs.com/v03/c06.html the 2003 issue was edited by Janet Buck.
JIM BORINGTwo Girlscopyright JIM BORINGThe road back is narrow and dark in the trees Bends back and forth rocking the cradle car Then breaks into light and pasture and corn And the little Evangelical Friendship Church Tonight featuring A Cruise on the Amazon Outside beyond the parked cars In the pink light of the evening sun Two long-legged girls in shorts Clamber on the big boulder that Marks this Midwest outpost of Plymouth The girls have the gawk and grace of adolescence Given to them and to me as a gift by their friendly evangelical god A gift unearned placed there on the boulder In the pink light shining on their legs as they pose On the rock of their faith and their promise Their long shadows point east Toward some far potential yet to rise Past the glowing corn and the sweet grass Where the crickets trill and the sun now sets.
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