Janet had kept the world’s first days for us:
cut glass; oak; maple; books of chivalry;
and once she asked, “Would you knights like peach pie?”
School was Miss Norton: only sweet demand
could wake a child to what it was to sing;
and straight Miss Norton never would go bent.
This poem is from the Fall 2015 issue of Modern Age.
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