David Alpaugh
Doing the Math
(Tommy, age 7, explains)
Why we couldn't
catch
the 3-legged
cat
no matter how
swiftly
we'd pursue
was no big mystery
it was simply
that
he had 3 legs
(we only had 2)
Bio
David Alpaugh's poetry is included in the Dana Gioia edited anthology California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present and he has been a finalist for Poet Laureate of California. The more than 100 journals that have published his poetry, essays, and plays include Able Muse, Chronicle of Higher Education, Exquisite Corpse, Four and Twenty, Light, Poetry, Poets & Writers Magazine, Rattle, Scene4, Wisconsin Review, and Zyzzyva.