Plainwell Community Schools is excited to announce that Cooper Elementary 5th grade student, Levi Corning, recently won the Kalamazoo poetry contest - Poems that Ate our Ears! His poem (Fox) was selected as a winner out of grades 4-6 from area schools. His poem, along with other winning poems, will be posted on Kalamazoo city buses.
Fox
In sheer silence, he waits.
Stiff as a stone, he twitches his ears,
waiting, listening,
watching for movement upon the autumn wonderland.
Then, the fallen leaves jump and rustle about.
Swift as a hawk, the fox crouches to the soft soil,
and pounces.