Monday, September 5, 2011

bad labor day haiku


I.

summer's redux, short.
shadows lengthen and snowflakes
have found my office.


II.

the wind found my sigh
and carried it to the beach.
meetings, evermore.


III.

now i lay me down
to nap and thank the unions
for this small comfort.

7 comments:

  1. The Contemplative CynicSeptember 5, 2011 at 2:40 PM

    "The wind found my sigh and carried it to the beach" is one of the most poignant lines I've read in haiku! Thank you, Greta, for the wistfulness and the beauty of your words.

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  2. Annie OakleySeptember 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    Perfect description of the bittersweet end of summer.

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  3. Contingent CassandraSeptember 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    "shadows lengthen and snowflakes have found my office."

    Even worse, they have found my email address, and are requesting not only immediate, detailed explanations of things that I'd swear were quite clearly explained, in black and white, on documents to which they have access, but also appointments to come by my office to have me explain things even more. The problem seems to be that they have to choose their own topics, which always throws a few of them.

    Ah, well; so far 'tis only a flurry. I'll add my sigh to yours and savor a few more hours of peace.

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  4. The Contemplative CynicSeptember 5, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    @Contingent, how do you get yours to come in for further explanations? Mine just tell me in class that they didn't understand (after the fact), and therefore, didn't do the assignment.

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  5. Contingent CassandraSeptember 5, 2011 at 8:22 PM

    @Cynic: most of mine do that, too. But I seem to be establishing a pattern of having several students a semester who take up a disproportionate amount of office-hour time. Correlation is not, of course, causation, but it seems to happen in online or hybrid classes, and to coincide with my university offering more and more such classes. I think we may have reached the point where students who actually realize they shouldn't be taking a class with an online component (as opposed to those who don't have the time-management skills, but don't realize it) are finding themselves in such classes. Their solution (which is actually reasonable enough, but pretty inefficient from the point of view of my time) is to overuse office hours.

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  6. EskarinaSeptember 6, 2011 at 12:37 AM

    Beautiful, Greta.

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  7. Merely AcademicSeptember 6, 2011 at 1:52 AM

    Thank you, this is another keeper.

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