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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)
there is a panther.
it is night.
darting
at each parting
in the wilderness,
she is a
constant calculator
of risk.
she is a predator
so
set in her
are starfuls
of a life on the run.
Can you hear the ancestors?
They are pleading
for her paws to stop running--
acknowledge the bleeding.
someone should tell her
that even
wild things
must rest.