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First Line: Turn to page ten in your arithmetics'
Last Line: As numberless and nameless as their calls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Schools; Students


"Turn to page ten in your arithmetics."
Rustle of yellow pages like a snake
Among old leaves. The small boy tries to make
His mind go through its jumbled bag of tricks.
But how can he lay hands on eight times six
When mountains fill the window and a lake
Nudges his dreams, when autumn and the ache
Of color, noon, and the numbers meet and mix?

Puzzled, he asks the tree-tops, but the sun
Covers his desk with blots and yellow scrawls.
A woodchuck mocks him. If he had a gun!
Last year he brought down two of them. The walls
Dissolve. Vague thoughts bemuse him, one by one,
As numberless and nameless as their calls.





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