<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567836" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Summer Afternoon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A book written by Dalton Trumbo<br>was assigned as class reading<br>one summer session<br>much of it read aloud<br>by the teacher</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sweltering classroom<br>windows open<br>summer sun<br>sharp crack<br>of bat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">high school athletes <br>in full vigor<br>running bases<br>and catching<br>fly balls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps it was the teacher's reading<br>that drew us into the story and involved<br>us in the narrator's plight - whatever<br>it was worked </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*I can't hear. My left arm. I wonder what <br>they've done with it! <br>No legs you see. No more running walking<br>crawling if you have no legs. He had<br>no arms and no legs.<br>He was blind. It wasn't a dream.<br>He thought Jesus Joe there must <br>be some other way.*</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the time the teacher read<br>we could hear the players<br>outside chattering away<br>shouts as a run scored</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dust motes in the afternoon<br>sunlight seemed alive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the bell rang <br>and we sat stunned</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our summer was almost over</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Pruchnicki">Michael Pruchnicki</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567836" data-title="One Summer Afternoon de Michael Pruchnicki" data-description="A book written by Dalton Trumbo was assigned as class reading one summer session much of it read aloud by the teacher sweltering classroom windows open summer sun sharp crack of bat high school athletes in full vigor running bases and catching ..."></div> </div> </div>

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