A proof print of the block designed to accompany my poem “If We Stop Teaching Cursive”

If We Stop Teaching Cursive

If we stop teaching cursive,
how will my children read
the letters I wrote their mother
before she was my wife?

If we stop teaching cursive,
how will their thoughts
flow across the paper
free from the pause of print?

If we stop teaching cursive,
how will they feel the pleasure
of the spiritual loops
that always end up?

If we stop teaching cursive,
their words will not waltz.
They will only march
as straight-backed, broken soldiers.