AN UNLIKELY CONVERSATION IBD

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It is rare and lucky when email addresses are exchanged with a promise of 'letâÇÖs keep in touch,' and then thatápromise is kept.ááThese free-wheeling exchanges began after Will Grant left for St. Lawrence University, five years after he left Mary AnkerâÇÖs seventh grade class. A few emails initially to stay in touch, with short, tight observations added after signing off.áAt first, these poems looked like postscripts, eventually they came to reflect those stray thoughts that appear whenátaking time to gaze and muse.ááDuring these years, there were only a few in-person visits.áThe writing grew into an entity of its own.áThe decision to share this friendship via a chapbook is our recognition of the fun, heartening, and two-way mentoring that crosses generations.áInviting former students to leave the 'Ms. Anker' behind and adapt to Mary is the lucky and rare point when advice goes both ways and possible conversations unfold.Three former Berwick Academy students and one teacher collaborated on an unlikely conversation.áWill Grant 2015, Emma Sattler 2017, Elsa Grant 2017, and Mary Anker.