The playground
of concrete and gravel and parking spaces
becomes almost forgotten
in the sacrament of water’s flow,
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a breaking of the ice
upon the pale orange wall,
seeping into pebbled earth,
streaming into crimson
eroded bricks which lie in pattern,
blessing the children’s laughter
which is no longer there,
teaching the will to stay
and the will to break.
Carla S. Ferreira is an English concentrator in Lowell House. She completed a thesis in poetry entitled “In Transit.” Next year, Carla will be teaching English in southern France and hopes to continue writing and teaching poetry.