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Some of my students are tackling
some very difficult subjects

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about abuse and molestation.

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"For a Student
Who Was Molested."

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"I want to write about
Patricia and to tell

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you, who have the open
arms to receive that girl,

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to receive my telling.

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How she sat tonight in the
claustrophobic classroom

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in the ordinary chair that
kept rearranging itself

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against her contours.

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She would spread out
in one direction,

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straighten her legs, then twist.

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Ungainly, you might call,
a girl who doesn't fit.

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Some writers said beauty
deforms the space around it.

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One such as her gives
space order, calms it.

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Maybe her core is
doubling and boiling.

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The original cells
out of control,

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a potion that
can't stand itself.

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Inside her God-eye,
an unbraiding hatred.

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When I look past the
face of another student

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to find her face, she is
hidden behind the shoulder

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of the boy in front
so that I have

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to move to the center of the
room and search for her eyes.

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She is there even though I
know she is breaking herself

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down to nothing.

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She wrote, Your hands on
me in the foster homes

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taking my joy, my innocence
at five, at eight.

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You took much more
than you knew."

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