Welcome new students!  As we begin this year together, I’m so glad you popped over to my blog.  I love reading, words, and rhythm.  Here’s one of my favorite poems to get us started:

I Love the Look of Words

Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor
of a hot black skillet and into my mouth.
Black words leap,
snapping from the white
page. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding
Into my brain which gobbles them
the way my tongue and teeth
chomp the buttered popcorn.
When I have stopped reading,
ideas from the words stay stuck
in my mind, like the sweet
smell of butter perfuming my
fingers long after the popcorn
is finished.
I love the book
and the look of words
the weight of ideas that popped into my mind.

~Maya Angelou