School time has come again: Three tanka

first day of school
it takes twenty-one minutes
to go four blocks
   then ten more to get back home:
   three schools on the same street

[PL, August 18, 2003]


second week of school--
in homes of kindergarteners
white uniform shirts
  (napkins for spaghetti lunch)
  soaking in the kitchen sinks

[PL, August 31, 1995]


popsicles
for football players
during practice
  (funds raised by cheerleaders
  from the folks in Star City

[PL, August 11, 2004]