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April 19, 2018

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A Book by the Brook — Don’t Ask a Dinosaur

Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare

A Book by the Brook: Book Reviews at FriendlyFairyTales.com

This light romp from Deborah Bruss and Matt Forest Esenwine has loads of laughs as dinos try wrapping presents and baking cakes in Don’t Ask a Dinosaur. The text has loads of those tough dino names, all with dots to separate the syllables into pronounceable snack-sizes. And it scans smoothly and rhymes! I know, I couldn’t believe it either. Plus, Louie Chin did a wonderful job bringing the dinos to vivid but not-too-scary life. Continue reading →

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April 17, 2018

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Orchid Haiku

White orchids

orchid open,
the sky in summer
a child’s heart

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April 16, 2018

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Angel Spring

Fresh rain dimples
Mother Ocean,
intertwining with brine
in frothy swells, Continue reading →

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April 12, 2018

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Why Salt Marshes?

Minnows swim. Crabs hide.
Tides roll in, tides roll out,
drowned to drought.

Plovers pipe. Wren nest.
Mussels and clams filter waste
and toxins out. Continue reading →

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April 11, 2018

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Progressive Poem

For the second April in a row, I’m contributing a line, the eleventh here, to a community poem, developed like film in different darkrooms, forming a picture-poem for kids:

Nestled in her cozy bed, a seed stretched.
Oh, what wonderful dreams she had had! Continue reading →

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April 10, 2018

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A Book by the Brook — Read! Read! Read!

Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare

A Book by the Brook: Book Reviews at FriendlyFairyTales.com

From its cover image of a book as a flying carpet to “stories/ that fly like birds”, Read! Read! Read! uplifts and envigorates. Poems by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater dance happily beside Ryan O’Rourke’s illustrations, and my favorite is the happy child disappearing into a magazine with actual magic! Really! Continue reading →

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April 8, 2018

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Signs of Spring

snow doesn’t stick
buds burst, robins return
it’s spring

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April 6, 2018

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Under the Snow

Tiny Japanese irises

Under the snow
that falls today,
are blooms that
smell like blue sky
and sunshine.

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April 5, 2018

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Young Girls Rise

Yellow rose

Acevedo’s words wake my inner girl,
that angry, confined, injured girl
who broke free of youth, rose up,
and found that her bruised layers Continue reading →

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April 4, 2018

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Imperfect Stars

I’m pleased to announce that one of my poems can be found in the wild, or at least on The Mistake Anthology blog. The way it referred to me was hilarious: IMPERFECT poet Brenda Davis Harsham. So fitting. 🙂

The Mistake Anthology, Imperfect, comes out this month carrying two of my poems into the world with it.