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A Poem

At this time of the year, everything begins to gel. We are a community at long last. Everyone is busy reading or writing, absorbed in their play/work. Even... is huddled in the corner with a brand new copy of The Wimpy Kid or a newly stapled book about some character of the imagination. There is a quiet hum, the laptop, the rustling of the pages of a book, pencils skimming across a clean page, the whispered voices of children reading together, my own voice conferring with a student who has just had a revelation and can't wait to get back to her writing - alone. I stand back. There's nothing left to do. I move on to converse with another child. It's a grand day.