“Mini cat poem for ISF kids:William went highInto the airFurly had steppedOn the edge ofThe board”

“When I went to school every teacher had a BOARD of education.”

“Until recently I always thought that 'Cat Boarding' was the way America tortured their felines.”

“The Old Poets Of ChinaWherever I am, the world comes after me.It offers me its busyness. It does not believethat I do not want it. Now I understandwhy the old poets of China went so far and highinto the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”

“Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge ofthe blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.”

“It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery.”