The Safe Place

a poem by Kip Zegers

Awriter, brilliant on schools,

saidin surprise, that among children,

hefelt safer than walking, a man

onSouth Bronx streets. With 50 kids,

justoff an A Train, I felt

athing brush my cheek, a dark face

shonebetween cars picking up speed.

Oneof the girls came up

witha heavy paperclip,

“Hewas shooting you! Mr. K--,

youbest be careful down here…"

Anothervoice, "You walkin' us all

theway to Lenox in this heat? Shoot,

you better try and get us started."

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