SPLINTERS FOR SEPTEMBER 2021

What are your memories of the start of the school year?
1. Write from the view of a child or adult, or combine the two.
2. Did you also play truant like the poem from Robert Roxby? Share that experience and how it impacted (or not) your later life.
Use a childhood game as the inspiration for your poem.
1. Use the game as an allegory or metaphor or re-write the rules.
2. For examples, see Margaret Roxby’s “How the Rope Turns Matters Much” or Kathleen Roxby’s “GAMES OF EITHER/OR”.
3. Or simply tell your experience of game(s) you played as a child.
When does Summer end? Is it a spirit or merely a season of the year? See Margaret Roxby’s “Summer Lives.”