Saturday, October 3, 2009

Mrs. Peterson

Paintings overflowed


Onto her skirts with each stroke of her voice.


Her eyes were graphite,


Her curls swirling, like Van Gogh’s Starry Night.


Each of her encouragements,


Staccato like a stipple dot,


Small, but remarkably different from its neighbor.


With each step, her shadow


Drifted with Vermeer’s subtle shading,


Leaving us to wonder


If one of Raphael’s angels


Had flown into our classroom.

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