This is the second installment about “Reclamation,” a response poem to Robert Frost’s “The Gift Outright.” Part 1 is here. We moved around a lot when I was young—by the time I started second grade I’d been in four schools in two states—but when we got to Slidell, we stayed. We moved there in the middle of my fifth grade year and I stayed until two years after I graduated from high school, right before I got married for the first time. For about another six months it’ll hold the record for the longest I’ve ever lived at a single address, assuming nothing happens to our current house (please don’t let anything happen to our current house).
Reclamation Part 2
Reclamation Part 2
Reclamation Part 2
This is the second installment about “Reclamation,” a response poem to Robert Frost’s “The Gift Outright.” Part 1 is here. We moved around a lot when I was young—by the time I started second grade I’d been in four schools in two states—but when we got to Slidell, we stayed. We moved there in the middle of my fifth grade year and I stayed until two years after I graduated from high school, right before I got married for the first time. For about another six months it’ll hold the record for the longest I’ve ever lived at a single address, assuming nothing happens to our current house (please don’t let anything happen to our current house).