Date: 21 Mar 1972
Class: English 9
Practice teacher:
Miss Hatch
Student evaluator:
Mark

When in the beginning
of class when we or I
saw you in back we thought
I hope she is not a snob
but when later
I got to know her she was
a real great person to know.
I’ll be sad now your gone.

—dotty seiter

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Notes about poem and art:
• “Mark” is another—the only other—poem I wrote in 1972 referencing my student teaching at Norwich Free Academy. As with “Timothy,” I used contextual grounding as a simulated title, but changed little of the original poem that has sat typed on corrasible bond paper for decades. I can’t help but smile at the 9th grade boy’s viewpoint of the experience and my own 22-year-old filtering of his words into a little poem.
• Today I’ve posted another view of Inner Work—this time in a different orientation. At several points while it had been in process, I’d walk into my studio space and see it from this alternate orientation, an orientation that has considerable magnetic pull for me.