Yarn Fair 2011

City Sheep, Country Sheep

Forest Sheep, Mountain Sheep

Competition is on.

Coast Sheep’s signature yarn

soaked up the deep ocean.

Tastes a little like a drops of tears.



One winter morning, when I got to school a purple goat was sitting at my desk. The purple goat looked at me and said “Teeeeee heeeee”

The teacher came and said: “Sit down, already!” but because the goat didn’t want to move I had to sit on his lap.

It seemed only I could see the purple goat.

The purple goat sang “My Way” in my ear the whole time I was in math class so that I could not take notes at all. Then, the purple goat ate my quiz in history class. At lunch time the purple goat licked my peanut butter and flipped over my soup bowl.  I almost cried. The purple goat said: “Teeeeee heee”

After lunch is the gym class. Today’s subject is high jump-my least favorite.

I went to the end of the line. I wanted to run away but the purple goat was holding my collar with his mouth. Our turn came: I was standing at the front of the line! I took a deep breath, stared at the bar and started!

J  u  m  p

And I landed on my belly. I didn’t jump over the bar. But I did jump higher than ever.

“Yo, how’d you jump so high!?!” The kids talked to me at the water cooler. They usually didn’t even say hello.

“Teeeeeeee heeeeee” The purple goat and I said, and squirted water on them.

After the water battle, the teacher made us stand in the corner. We all said “Teeeeee heeee” at the teacher’s back and ran.

We promised to have lunch together the next day and went home.

When I got home the purple goat was gone. “Maybe you can come see me sometime… …only sometime,” I said in my heart.



When the moon is full, Jack-a-lope is busy

Steamy Hot

Snowy White

Sweet and sticky

Jack-a-lope makes a rice cake

Every new years day people choke on rice cakes

 News says 6 people died this year

Makes a Jack-a-lope sad

Jack-a-lope wants to make a rice cake that doesn’t choke people

Jack-a-lope tried butter, olive oil, even lard to mix in rice cake

 One day the Jack-a-lope mail ordered some sperm whale oil to try

Next day animal rights people protested on the moon



 
In the dusty blue tent
I am an old rope walker
Between circles of spotlights
I take a step on the stiff rope

Feeling of young soft greens under the hoofs
The smell of damp soil
How long do I dream about this
Audiences shouting and clapping
No one sees the tears of the rope walker

The dog could smell the cheese on the kitchen table. He could almost see it. He sat nicely, did “get down” and howled a little bit. But the dog remained cheeseless.

That night he had a dream.

The dog had a set of wings on his back. They were small, rubbery bat-like wings. The dog was excited. He rushed to the kitchen. He took a deep breath, flapped his wings. His body floated for a second and he flapped some more with all his power. He was almost at the tabletop high, but he could not reach the cheese. He kicked the air, tried to stretch in the air, but he was a little too heavy for the small bat wings to go higher. The dog went back to his bed cheeseless again.

When he woke up next morning, the wings were gone. Instead, he found a big piece of cheese in his food bowl.