Monday, August 31, 2015

My annual school prayer


please grant me

a slab of slate
a chunk of chalk

a live critter
a dead ego

a magnet
a marble

curious children
and a sundial's sense of time.

amen











Sundial at Rockefeller Center, NYC, National Archives

1 comment:

Roll Cage Mary said...

How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!

...always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with
his superior ~ W. Collins 1721-1759