POETRY DAY

Day One Poetry Workshop:

On the confluence
of a Day One poetry workshop
April Fool's Day
and National Poetry Month
a third grader
newly arrived to writing
who couldn't remember my name
wrote on both sides of her folder:
Poetry with Merlin.
Poetry with Merlin.
Foolish grins all round
Magic was afoot.
Magic was afoot.
She sighed, and said, "I wish
every day could be Poetry Day."


The magician is in...


4/1/2009