The Tree and the Fog

I used to be a P. E. coach. And a poet. Once I wrote poems for my third graders, and Coach Watkins put on a show. The next year I did the same, and the class called me "Coach Waffle." The teachers weren't sure if that was respectful and objected at first. I asked them to please wait while I considered the name... "Yes, I like it," so I was Coach Waffle for that class, the Coach Poet, and here are the first two poems written for those third graders at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. Love, Nature, and God helped me write them. --Bill Watkins, author