Vol 1 No 2 2007
how to teach grammar
for
denis johnson
i don’t care one whit about commas
rarely read an essay I can’t follow
due to a run-on sentence
or is it run-away
words colliding in white space
f r a g m e n t s
as if anything comes out whole
for example this morning
race to committee on faculty
development leave early
for noon class gulp peach smoothie
eight live active cultures
incomplete sentences
turned upside down slapped
on the ass nothing intact since
shoved into sound bites
to hell with grammar
david sleeps in the parking garage
at perdido & salsipuedes
sober most days last thursday
he saw a boy fifteen his son’s age
shot anna’s a single mom
clean six months january
her daughter starts second grade
ready to write i yell turning to the board
write naked write from exile write in blood
Chella Courington