Poetry Room at IsleWrite.com: PRACTICE is a poem about cultures living together, written by Janet Cannon.

A Poem from Janet Cannon's

practice

quizzing my high
school daughter for

her spanish test i
practice too la pulsera

una libreta el boso un
collar outside our

apartment door cuban
neighbor sounds speed

with jet engine efficiency
through what we flap

our novice tongues
trying to pronounce

Poem by Janet Cannon

Previously published in
Piddiddle
(College Station, TX)

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