A story about a girl’s decision and how it helped her to change her perception.

My grandmother was a Russian peasant girl when she came to this country at the age of nine in 1906. She possessed no formal education. She married, had three children, eight grandchildren, but did not live to see any great-grandchildren. She died at the age of 80, oldest survival age for anyone of her immediate family up until then. She left a legacy of sayings. Common sense, humor, sensuality and a sense that life is really quite simple.

What Betsy cared about most, however, was pushing students to a place of their highest potential—a place perhaps they did not even know they could go. And this is exactly where I went.

Yearning to be out of the present.

Although it is short in length, I’ve been working on this poem since February of 2007. I started writing it in a class I took at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, that was taught by the infamous Irish poet, Greg Delanty, and was entitled “Poetry Writing Workshop I”. Greg gave me a lot of positive feedback on this particular poem. Furthermore, this poem highlights the use of alliteration and assonance. Lastly, I wrote this poem because I am from the Boston area and have been working in Harvard Square for the past ten summers of my life.

An article about your apathy.