February 4, 2014February 4, 2014 by Dave Bonta

Secondary school

This entry is part 12 of 91 in the series Toward Noon: 3verses

I grew up with a woodstove
instead of a TV. I know all
the theme songs of oak.

If I could unlearn
the names of the birds,
how much freer their flight!

In a dream, I run
through my half-remembered high school
to catch a bus.

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I live in an Appalachian hollow in the Juniata watershed of central Pennsylvania, and spend a great deal of time walking in the woods. Here’s a bio. All of my writing here is available for reuse and creative remix under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. For attribution in printed material, my name (Dave Bonta) will suffice, but for web use, please link back to the original. Contact me for permission to waive the “share alike” provision (e.g. for use in a conventionally copyrighted work).

3 Replies to “Secondary school”

Peter says:

February 4, 2014 at 11:23 pm

I love the associations here. And the first stanza’s just great.

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1. Dave Bonta says:
  
  February 5, 2014 at 12:01 am
  
  Thanks, Peter. I had the first two stanzas along with the title in draft form for two days, not sure what to do, but my last dream before waking came to the rescue.
  
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