POETRY
Our Grade Seven Class Photo
Free verse
Published in
1 min readAug 30, 2023
our class photo was the standard three lines
backed by mowed velvet rows and cul-de-sacs.
grids we returned to for afterschool TV,
sibling rivalry and benign parental neglect.
kids in my town wore GAP out of the barn
always striving for a higher class,
