Return to the land...

Of poems...


I was asked to TEACH!! Just for today... I'll be teaching someone else's poetry class while they go meet their new grandbaby.

It was SO FUN to prepare!

I spent the morning copying and snipping poems and making a worksheet... the jigsaw fun of fitting as many poems on a copy as possible. And it was so familiar, so tactile...

It took me back to college... back to when I used to help Rick (Jackson) get prepped for workshop. A pretty happy time (in many ways ) for me.

And it made me want to teach poetry. Really BAD!

Maybe someday I'll climb that ladder. Maybe.

Maybe someday, like next year, when we move to the Southeast, I'll apply for teaching jobs.

But for now, I'm off. With my old friends, Berryman, Tate, OHara, and Holub.

To class!!!!!