lit

Today I shared a poem I love with my writers workshop companions

on the first workshop of the year


Today I shared a poem and laughed self-consciously

at the fact I

got

goose-bumps all over from

reading it


Today children grinned in a circle as we

talked and shared and read

together


And their whole bodies

seemed alight


like someone had gone and put candles inside them

or glow-in-the-dark stars


And when they smiled

the light shone out


in a clear

straight

line


From them to me.

.