Throw Back Thursday

 This is a poem I wrote when I was 6 years old in first grade. My teacher, Sr. Ann Jerome, kept this in her desk drawer for 15 years. When she retired, she gave it to my mom and my mom framed it. Before anything else, before I knew anything of what is to be found in school and books and learning, in the deepest parts of my heart and soul, I am a poet. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes.