Drawing The Alphabet Poem by John Rickell

Drawing The Alphabet

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'What did you do at school'?
I asked.
'Drew the alphabet'
she said.
Watched her draw her name
with greatest care
in her drawing book.
You must understand her style,
feels the world as once we did,
discards sophistication,
before she even knew it.
‘R' the wrong way round
‘K’ laid on its back,
yet all made sense, watching,
saw the world as she did;
drawings on the table
signed in felt strokes
reds and blues and why not!

Thursday, April 10, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: childhood
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
We sat at the table my grandchild and I each with a pencil and a sheet of paper
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