Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #86
She Said It Was A Smile
by Belinda Roddie
She said it was a smile caught in the rain
when she presented the drawing that I
had instructed her to work on that day
in the stifling eighty degree classroom.
I had told ten girls to draw whatever
first popped into their minds after closing
their eyes. At first, this student's paper was
nothing but Jackson Pollock-esque squiggly
lines, and that was all she could at first call
them. But then we drew together - number
eights with smiley faces that we called friends,
a snake singing "S" that I concocted
in my mind. So her picture soon became
two eyes, and a smile that held in the rain.
by Belinda Roddie
She said it was a smile caught in the rain
when she presented the drawing that I
had instructed her to work on that day
in the stifling eighty degree classroom.
I had told ten girls to draw whatever
first popped into their minds after closing
their eyes. At first, this student's paper was
nothing but Jackson Pollock-esque squiggly
lines, and that was all she could at first call
them. But then we drew together - number
eights with smiley faces that we called friends,
a snake singing "S" that I concocted
in my mind. So her picture soon became
two eyes, and a smile that held in the rain.
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