the home stretch

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
-Taisen Deshimaru

twenty days left this year
sun is setting on the third grade
my heart is filled with nostalgia
my mind with annoyance
thinking (just SHUT UP!!)
and then sweetness returns.

I will cry on the last day
I will write an epilogue on the plane to Boston
and read Anna Karenina all the way to India
I will spend 24 hours
straight
up in the air.

stop making up theories
teaching theories
writing about theories.
opting instead for
the bountiful yellow wildflowers
under a big, grey blue Texas sky.

nothing's better than
raspberry shaved ice
practical world travel
and creative completion.