My New Favorite Poet
He's five and a half and he's brilliant:
My students were making human sculptures out of each other and telling us what their sculptures were. Most kids said things like, "He's throwing a ball," "It's a bird" or "Its a statue of someone running." Then we get to Jacob who says:
It's a monarch butterfly,
migrating to Bora Bora,
because it can only live
in tropical places,
and somehow,
it knows that
Seriously, there are moments when my job is truly magical.
My students were making human sculptures out of each other and telling us what their sculptures were. Most kids said things like, "He's throwing a ball," "It's a bird" or "Its a statue of someone running." Then we get to Jacob who says:
It's a monarch butterfly,
migrating to Bora Bora,
because it can only live
in tropical places,
and somehow,
it knows that
Seriously, there are moments when my job is truly magical.