Editor’s note: Toby Baker-Rouse was a 9-year-old fourth-grader in Middlebury when he submitted this poem to the Young Writers Project this past school year. Today The Baby Crawled on Me Today the baby crawled on me, with kisses and with drool. My mother brought him up the stairs to get me up for school. Today, the dog, she jumped on me – she sat upon my head. My mother brought her up the stairs to get me out of bed. Today my sister woke me up, with stomping and a yell. She thumped her way down all t … (read more)
