The only A she ever got
Second grade
Penmanship
from lead to ink
by mid December
Years of youthful curlicues
Swept across the page
ripe with wants and wishes
and everyday waking needs
at 24
she dropped the heart-shaped dotted i’s
third-stage went to four
lead and ink
by mid-December
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Deb Rankine is a national food writer, recipe developer and author of The Fridge Whisperer Cookbook Series. Her off hours are spent in torment over her work-in-progress, The Good Wife.
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