and so thin x (c) 2011 April Halprin Wayland, all rights reserved x The story behind the poem: x Over at MsMac’s Check It Out blog, (posting poems by students all month long), Jenna, a 5th grader, has written a beautiful musical apology based on William Carlos Williams‘ famous plums poem…his poem titled This Is Just To Say, which starts, “I have eaten/the plums/that were in/ the icebox”
x After a day chasing my tail, looking for poems in all the wrong places, Jenna’s poem inspired me to create my own THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem after Williams’.
x What about you? What would your THIS IS JUST TO SAY poem say? Eli and Elsie
Love this, April! And it brings back memories, both of the lovely Williams poem that I first learned many years ago, and of the day I brought a rescue dog home and my cat gave me that look of total disbelief.
I’m happy that you’re sharing this with that student, Kate! And thanks, Ann. And the truth is that we adopted Eli nearly a year ago and the cats still don’t like or trust him…
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Oh, wonderful: “so waggy/and so thin”! I’m going to share your poem with my American Lit student who recently read “This Is Just to Say.”
Love this, April! And it brings back memories, both of the lovely Williams poem that I first learned many years ago, and of the day I brought a rescue dog home and my cat gave me that look of total disbelief.
I’m happy that you’re sharing this with that student, Kate! And thanks, Ann. And the truth is that we adopted Eli nearly a year ago and the cats still don’t like or trust him…