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Dr. Maya Angelou said that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of yourself.
As a reading and writing teacher, I believe in teaching stories.
I believe in teaching students to share them.
I believe in teaching them to speak.
I believe it is valuable for them to have the chance to see my authentic voice as a writer in the real world presented in these posts. That is, after all, the purpose of writing—to share it with an audience. To speak. To tell a story like only you can.
This is what it looks like when MnikesaSpeaks.
(Photo by: Rachel Liu-Ballard)
They say that the trees
are like lungs--
the branches reaching up
like the interstitial rungs
that are hardening in my chest.
Pulmonary fibrosis.
do you see how those limbs
list and lean in?
a little slant, but always up...
when you are dying,
your faith is no longer philosophy.
it is felt thing here in the killing fields
where even hardening limbs
still reach up.
