~~~  Flight School ~~~~

Even now, as I look at my past earnest notes, my

Head swirls. Math. Science. History. Find Scott

Joplin resources. Something about President Cleveland

Not being able to read his inauguration paper.

You had a piano teacher named Ms. Shaw. I taught

You guitar and Constitution at Lamppost Co-op.

On Tuesday, you were supposed to watch a

Star Trek show before Taekwondo and then,

Suddenly, all my plans end, and there’s blank

Page after blank page. During this phase of

homeschooling, we must have been

jumping, jumping, jumping. ADHD trampoline

homeschool. Do you remember Whoever got

Pokemon toys Chicorita&Poliwhirl off from a hard

bounce -- also Pooh and a big marble or two –

Would win? Over and over they sailed up

Newton's-law-lesson to thump down on the ground.

I’d have a book nearby and we’d read history

Told in stories and lie there looking up at

The clouds floating by, moving, not required

To be static, meandering, sliding, untied

To the earth or chair. I learned to do

A side aerial flip with you my little boy

wisp as we flung ourselves up unwired.

copyright TWW

2/13/16