Felt like we were running
dry of grass exactly when the
insects arrived when our students arrived
beginning complaining through song and
various media where we were delivering
shared curricula. I now can always arrive
too caffeinated. I also now am crying
in the bathroom and am phoning you, “I
feel a bit but have seen nothing,” and I
wonder exactly what these things could
be carrying of other blood or through me
as we see students cower or just sweat out
into something that for us we can or are
trained just to plainly and calmly call fear