Thanks so much to Stacey & David for allowing to me visit. And much thanks to you, for stopping by!
For my final poem-as-text for a children’s book, I’ll go back, just a bit. Richard Brautigan’s “A Boat” (The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, Houghton-Mifflin):
O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival
and he started
crying
when he saw
the Ferris wheel.
Electric
green and red tears
flowed down
his furry cheeks.
He looked
like a boat
out on the dark
water.
This poem always breaks my heart—and then I smile—the perfect math.
No illustrations—leave the pages blank so our children (or you) can provide their own.