Schooled
by
Jennifer Sutherland, Susan Burch, and Michael Dylan Welch First published in Hedgerow #130, April 2020, page 9. Written 16 October 2015 at the Haiku North America conference in Schenectady, New York. first day of school— the cover stretched across the piano Jennifer the long haul to the principal’s office Susan a touch of frost at the classroom window . . . the teacher’s drone Michael the star by her name erased from the whiteboard Jennifer pop quiz— the tick tick tick of the clock Susan sun through the fog recess bell Michael |