Post-COVID, K-12 leaders will face pressure to return to familiar norms and structures. Sarah Pazur explains why it is especially urgent for them to evoke the power of poetry to imagine educational reform on the other side of this global pandemic. In this personal first-person narrative, she explains how poetry has affected her practice and describes how school leaders can use it to do the work of critical pedagogy, which requires leaders to imagine different possibilities for how schools can operate.