Books by George Colon

You come back wavering shapes Out of the past in which you first appeared You crowd, you press As from the mist you now appear.

From Jonas Bronck and the Indians, Ann Hutchinson, Edgar Allan Poe and Jordan Mott, to the fires, and then, the Phoenix rises. A history of my Precioso El Bronx.

"My life had a purpose In my students, I will live on, too. I was a friend, a father - and at times a mother. I gave them compassion and touched their lives. But teachers do more. Teachers teach. I taught."