Tomorrow is Poets.org’s annual Poem in Your Pocket Day. The goal is to print copies of your favorite poem and give them out to random people you see tomorrow.
So, random people of the Blogosphere, here is the poem I shall share with you this year (last year, I just gave a list of my favorite poems, so I didn’t exactly follow the rules, but since this year seems to be the year of the annoying series of unfortunate events*, I’m going to follow the letter of the law this time–wishful thinker that I am:
“Washing the Elephant” by Barbara Ras (published in the New Yorker on March 15, 2010).
* And it’s working! As I was typing this very sentence two students came to see me and both thanked me for being such a good teacher! I’m positively glowing right now, can you tell?
From the Mixed Up Bloggings of Annie Em 
yes, I can tell. What a beautiful poem.
Hours later, still glowing;-) Thanks, JC. And YOUR favorite poem?
Homework? YOU are giving out HOMEWORK too! Et tu, Annie Em?
Love it! And love that you’re glowing because of well-deserved compliments. 😀
Inky started it, JC!
I like this one. I read about 15 before picking it. Do I get extra credit for reading 14 others that I didn’t like? 😛
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lisel_mueller/poems/15570.html
Oh, JC, what a fabulous poem! Yes, of course you get extra credit;-) Why not?
And ha ha ha! 😉
LOL
This video belongs with your poem. It’s an elephant birth. Awesome baby and momma.
rant: WTF is with video d00dz doing slo-mo X 3 on the blood flood? do we *really* need to see that 3 times slooooooowly!?! /rant
I admittedly skipped to the 4 minute plus mark to see the baby post birth, wimp tha tI am, but so incredible!