{"id":6399,"date":"2021-04-02T06:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:22:12","slug":"lynn-aprill-in-the-schoolhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6399","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Aprill “In the Schoolhouse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lynn Aprill<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

In the Schoolhouse<\/span><\/h2>\n

A summer bee bumbles through
\nthe window as we sit, a one-room
\nSunday school, in the schoolhouse<\/p>\n

where my father stood
\nwith his cousin-best-friend
\nand stared hard at the camera,
\ntough at ten, in the schoolhouse<\/p>\n

where my grandfather learned
\n8th grade arithmetic, then left
\nto start his life as a farmer-carpenter
\non land 500 yards from the schoolhouse<\/p>\n

that his grandfather built–that august immigrant
\nwho left his homeland just in time to fight
\na civil war in his new one, who missed
\nthe birth of my great-grandfather
\nwhile surviving the Battle of Nashville–
\nback in 1894 for $289.00, so that<\/p>\n

generations later, I can sit
\nat a wooden desk, tracing the ancient
\ncarvings of pocket knives, memorizing
\n\u201cBeautiful Savior,\u201d decorating egg carton
\ncrosses with plastic posies
\npilfered from the next-door neighbor
\ngraves of my ancestors.<\/p>\n

\n

Educator and poet <\/em>Lynn Aprill<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets calendar, Bramble, Pure Slush, and in her upcoming chapbook Channeling Matriarchs with Finishing Line Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

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