Page 29 - January 2021

School is in Session

Jeff Weddle

Jeff Weddle is a poet and writer living in Tuscaloosa,

Alabama. He teaches in the School of Library and Information
Studies at the University of Alabama.

There are lessons
to be found
everywhere
like in random notes
played on the keys
on an old piano
the mute grace
observed
in the orbits
of celestial bodies
or the slow stride
of an ancient cat
across a dull
wooden floor.
There are lessons
in harmonics
and discord
and other mysteries.
The old masters
understood this
even as they
disagreed
on their meaning.
Lessons you would
do well
to notice
as you busy yourself
with silly things
like the love
who will never have you
or her touch
or life or death
or tomorrow.

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