Think...Outside the Box

"Outside the Box"

13" x 16" acrylic on canvas

2013

"This afternoon

in my grade level meeting

I must be prepared to

"think outside the box."

Right now

I'm remembering

the painstaking effort it took

to get in the box

in the first place.

Will there be applause

when we emerge?

Will the applause gratify us

the way the gasps of disbelief did

when we tucked our

last body

part

in?"

Poem by Mary Lee Hahn