It was the ninth grade, in Sophie Pouch’s English class, we passed the reading of Macbeth from reader to reader until it went all around the classroom yet still was not done. The next day we did it again and again, when finally, it was finished.
And Shakespeare’s words went out into those hallways of the school with a morning greeting of “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags?” as we congregated around our lockers. A commanding response of “Speak. Demand. We’ll listen.” “Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.” And on it went into our school day.
Autumn moonlight—
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut. Basho
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dVerse prompt to consider Shakespeare and Basho in a haibun. I will never forget Sophie Pouch’s ninth grade English class.
wordshophop 
Haha, that’s great! I also have very fond memories of ninth-grade English class, only my class did Romeo and Juliet.
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Oh, those English class readings! We did it, too. Stumbling and fumbling, but still, the words!
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My high school did Macbeth in Junior year (11th). That was the first time I cracked the code of meaning in Shakespeare’s early modern english. I began writing my own poems during that time, too. Your haibun reminds me of those idyllic, poetry-discovering days. Thank you!
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I have only read it later… but I would have thought that your would have learned the three witches
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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Goosebumps.
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