Bedtime

Why I am able to get some work done today

Cat sleeping with one eye open
in case Dog flies down the stairs.

Our Dog’s Adoption Story

dog, adopt, adoption

Freshman Dodger John Ely is pitching his 2nd game ever in the majors
sending those balls skidding past every one of the Brewers,
making them spin like tops,
no one gets on—
what a great dance.

Dog Park Spring Quartet

beagle, yawn, lazy

Sometimes I get flashes on a topic. Pieces of a puzzle that don’t fit together with that satisfying click no matter how I look at the pieces.

When I Am a Dog

Eli, the day we adopted him

I was looking at Eli’s strong, long tail and suddenly I had a teeny case of tail envy.

Metaphors Be With You

photo (c) 2011 April Halprin Wayland, all rights reserved

x DON’T TRY TO FIX ME by April Halprin Wayland x Just let me be. Just for a while. Some big, dead animal presses down. I don’t know why I feel like this. x Don’t try to fix me. Just let me be. x I have no breath. There isn’t anything to give— there’s nothing […]

TeachingAuthors.com turns 2!

birthday candles

We six who ride our blog horse here
are rather like that Paul Revere

“One if by land, two if by sea,”
was revolution’s poetry

How Does it Feel?

Hiking

My body after the hike felt so…so what? It was vibrating from the exercise and from the green of the day. This is what I tried to put down in a poem.