Love this poem #earthwarrior
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I wanted to share the exciting news that my friend and colleague Robert Fillman has a poem in the journal Canary: A Literary Journal Of The Environmental Crisis.
The link is here: Canary A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis
The Science Teacher
by Robert Fillman
Robert lives in the Lehigh River Watershed in eastern Pennsylvania.

When old Mrs. Helmut got sick
Miss Carson was her substitute.
She was young, straight out of college,
voice as soft as the knee-high grass
in the fields behind the playground.
She taught us about recycling,
how to conserve more energy
by swapping incandescent bulbs,
hanging our wet clothes on the line,
unplugging old appliances.
She asked us if we had ever
heated water with a peanut,
forced our nine-year-old minds to think
beyond broken chalk and blackboards.
We made compost in the courtyard
out of our leftovers from lunch,
went on field…
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Thank you so much!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Alethea, this poem was WONDERFUL….it took the reader RIGHT inside his mind’s images.
Hope all is well with you… Go gently, my friend… Vic
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I’m glad you enjoyed it too ❤
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