The Scout
THE SCOUT
I am an ant
on Your body’s wall,
seeking a crack
in Your el-
bow. There You
will lead me
down, down,
into the deep
spaces where
the dark seizes
me, and
we colonize.
7th Period
7th PERIOD Safe to assume we’ve probably got it mostly wrong, or if not quite wrong then likely a right that’s misinterpreted the question. That being said, students, the fact remains that at the construction site behind the classroom there’s a trailer-load of 2-by-10’s used to frame the concrete foundation that I struggle to believe they’re throwing away. Perhaps it would be a more advantageous use of our day were we to spend what’s left of class time shouldering lumber across campus to the bed of my truck. I, for one, plan on spending a few afternoons of my remaining puzzlement to puzzle together a table where my children can pick up the pondering where I left off. It seems as good a use of time as any. It's coarse work, but with every pass of the paper you can’t help but feel that you’re getting somewhere, like maybe, in the proverbial 8th period, we’ll get up from our desks and gather roun...
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