“The Classroom is the Beach” by Violet Hilgenberg
May 7, 2021
Stools are crabs that crawl across the
carpet sands
Chairs are the horses that once
rose from the sea
Tables are the rocks that the stools hid
under to escape from
the projector that is a white snake
hunting for prey
Violet Hilgenberg, of Lafayette Elementary School, read this poem to open our 2020/21 Literary Arts Series event with Mary Roach on Sunday, May 9, 2021. Written during the 2019/20 school year with WITS Writer-in-Residence Karen Finneyfrock.