After a day of serious, serial interruptions, Dave’s Verselove invitation was to write about…interruptions. Classrooms are notoriously places of interruptions (at least from my insider point of view)…and I’m not even talking about technology!

Questions bombard me

missiles propelled

From every direction 

     Is she dead?

     Can I have a bandaid?

     My dog is named (fill in the blank) too

All in the course 

of reading a book to my class

Hands in my face

A tug on my hem

My name called over and over and over

     I need help

     Is this good enough?

     What’s next?

As I launch into today’s lesson

Not to mention

vibrations, bells, unexpected

visitors

     stops and starts

     emotions overflowing 

     phones that ring and ring and ring

Send her to intervention

He’s being picked up to go to the 

     dentist

     doctor

     Disneyland 

Wait!

It’s time for lunch…

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