Poetic Asides Wed.Aug 10.2011 prompt - school

Home In School

Your digs will be primitive

We were told; I pictured

The wilds, nature, a tent

In fact, we had the corner

Of a classroom

In an elementary school

Used, during the day

As the “clean apothike”

A makeshift lab

For cleaning small finds

Shards of pots, tiny bones

The odd arrowhead

I learned how to stay quiet

And remain in our corner nest

Eavesdropping; auditing

A post-graduate class

On archaeology; assessing

Drawing, tracing,

Describing in detail,

All manner of discovery

A summer of being

Home schooled

In our school-home

Invaluable