ESOL Teaching Notes, Late December, at the Kitchen Table
- ESOL Teaching Notes, Late December, at the Kitchen Table
The lonely, young, blond woman in a big gray coatsits by one, small, open window all morning.
The lonely, young, gray-coated womancan stay there all day.
The coat cannot be gray before big.The window must be small before it is open.
If the woman is lonely, she is usually lonelybefore any other word.
The woman stacks all the clean, blue dishes.The center of her body—a smooth, blue bowl.
All means everything, is not the same as whole. [End Page 42]
Emily Cinquemani
Emily Cinquemani's poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Southern Indiana Review, Indiana Review, 32 Poems, Meridian, Nashville Review, and Cherry Tree. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
