LA ÑAPA

In Dominican Spanish la ñapa refers to "the little extra" added on at the end. Just when you thought you'd gotten all that you would get, along comes your ñapa, like a baker's dozen, with one more kiss, one more pastelito, one more mango at the mercado.

Read the latest ñapa: March Renga, a series of linked haiku.

Browse the collection of las ñapas I have shared in the past:

• A Chance to Turn the Tide
• Naming the Animals No Longer With Us
• CROP Walk: October 4, 2009
• RETURN TO SENDER: excerpt and soundtrack
• January 20, 2009
• Election Day: November 4, 2008
• Toward Hope and History Rhyming
• Julia Tavares Alvarez at United Nations
• Time is How You Spend Your Love
• Saving the Writer
• Reading the Coffee Cup
• a passage from Finding Miracles
• a poem for February
• a poem in praise of librarians
• The Woman I Kept To Myself
• The White House has disinvited the poets