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Friday, 06 February 2009

  • Anacrucis #18 "And if your truly wise, you'll keep your eyes on Palestine"

    It was a haunting dream that wouldn't leave me.

    Armed Middle Eastern soldiers sat in my room and all around the Riyadh compound watching and listening all of us westerners with blank expressions.  Outside the window, the empty-eyed abiya-ed women watched as well.  I spoke on the phone to someone about Israel unafraid of being heard.

    Cut to outside: the day's surveillance complete, the soldiers were emptying the rounds from their guns before departing.  An old Korean man slips me some valuable jewelry and asks me to keep it safe for him "just in case."  I was angered but not intimidated.

Thursday, 05 June 2008

  • Anacrusis #17: Days of Future Past

    Graduation time makes me feel prophetically nostalgic.

    Just went to a graduate party last night in Saudi Arabia and saw my seniors dressed to the nines doing imitations of their teachers, looking innocently excited/scared at the future; and I saw glimpses of the men and women they would become.

    Today I received an email about the long-anticipated debut novel of a former student and flashbacked to those wonderful evenings spent grading (read: treasuring) her nascent talent.

    It seems none of them arrive at the place they started heading for, but I love it when my English-teacher-sense tingles and life makes sense.

Friday, 28 March 2008

Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  • Anacrusis #15 - IOC Musings

    I click the microphone so the umpteenth student can once again tell the world the essence of Margaret Atwood’s “Spelling” for her taped IB Oral Commentary.

    I want to listen, but it seems so unfocused compared to the poet’s own words which are so precise and ordered.  I must pay attention.  She is trying so valiantly.

    I am distracted by a finch outside the window that darts in and out of my line of vision trying to land in some unseen nest hidden under the eaves.  I want to help it, but I don’t have wings.

    This, too, is a metaphor.

Sunday, 18 November 2007

  • Anacrusis #14: For the Curious

    This Xanga site is being used as an online creative writing outlet.  The anacrusis entries I post are experiments in stating a message in exactly 101 words, inspired by a similar (but much larger scale) blog site by Brendan Adkins, a former student of mine.


    For news about the Munson family, see our blog site at www.munsons.wordpress.com

    For more immediate ramblings, check out my Facebook site.

    I would write more, but I have nothing to say.  I also feel compelled to make even this public service message stretch out to 101 words to maintain the integrity of anacrusis entries.

    There, done!

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