Hour One of 2021 Marathon<\/p>\n
In January 2021 I began the journey
\nhundreds of miles trekking in pilgrimage
\nto a virtual Santiago amid the small houses
\nof my safe community where invisible threats
\ncame into the very air we breathed.<\/p>\n
An e-route with guideposts and imagined sunflowers
\nalong with hundreds of miles opened before me
\nas I walked darkest mornings
\nwhen the owl perched in my front yard
\nharmonized with the train whistle miles away.<\/p>\n
The road continued
\nas I walked tired in the afternoons
\nfollowing students\u2019 queries and fears and hopes
\ntheir zoomed voices echoing odd harmonies
\nwith birds and barks of surrounding houses.<\/p>\n
A few evenings I walked a few more steps
\nas the sun shone upon iced winter roads,
\nmuddy spring parks, and now summer\u2019s opening fields.
\nToday no harmonies come from increasing traffic,
\ncrowded stores, drowned out animals\u2019 cries, my heart.<\/p>\n
One hundred final on this pilgrimage
\nnow open before me, and the ultimate arrival
\nwill take me back to my classrooms, into the chaos,
\nbuildings and streets busier and filled with people
\nclamoring with unsettled nerves and angst.<\/p>\n
My journey has been sad.
\nSteps upon steps were designed for intentional peace.
\nDiscovering stillness full of painful, tender unknowns,
\nI\u2019m older and wizened from the pivots and strains.
\nMiles remain as I finish this journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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