The Editor Falls Asleep
When I studied grammar in my editing courses with Ryerson, this poem evolved and was subsequently published in our editors' 2006 Edition newsletter. It's still one of my poems that catches a playful spirit. Perhaps you have to be a grammarian to fully get it. It was also published in What's Your Favourite Poem contest by Craigleigh Press in January 2006. The editor falls asleep grammar books next to her pillow, she dreams of a party and invites all her friends: coordinate adjectives do-si-do with the nouns, arguing which one will lead, but verbs call the action parenthesis pairs waltz with quotation mark couples with strings of words, like secrets, between them high-flying apostrophes flirt with its and with s’s amusing the audience, embarrassing the hosts reds, whites, and blues, and their serial cousins converse with Sir Oxford, that old dashing fellow fanboys join independents in convivial laughter grabb