Well, the teacher this year is criticizing Katy for being concise in her writing, precise.
Does this teacher not know how hard E.B. White worked to be just that?
This teacher says, "More is always better."
Well, this is my poetic response to that. After all, nothing ruffles me anymore. I am the breeze, not the curtains. I live in ease. : )
If you read the weather on the East Coast in the next day or so, you'll know I just floated through, with ease.
Teacher’s Conference
Imagine if your beloved niece
had a teacher who says
“More is always better.”
Isn’t that what is wrong with
this country?
More, more, more -
What happened to less is more
-
when I ask her to notice her
breath
and the fairies who dance
in the moisture
hovering there
and give the fairies a bed
and a place to dive
and a pearl or two -
we offer
only a little
just enough
to place on their leaf
by the door -