Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
So much depends on the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Without his poetry, how many American poets would still use the formal language of Whitman? Continue reading
Snail sets sail
on cordgrass stalk.
Gulls squawk.
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implacable rain
drenches skin, soil and stem but
my words keep me dry
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Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
Meet my Family! has adorable baby animals comparing notes on families. A raccoon kit grows up with a single-mom but a titi monkey hangs out with his dad. Swans have both parents and sea turtles have none. Laysan albatross chicks have two moms and chinstrap penguin chicks have two dads. Any kind of family unit you can imagine is normal to someone. Laura Purdie Salas wrote each animal baby a poem, and Stephanie Fizer Coleman brought them to life with her art. Continue reading
Groundhogs amble past brambles.
Winter torpor adds a weighty waddle
to their dandelion waltz. Continue reading
Fresh rain dimples
Mother Ocean,
intertwining with brine
in frothy swells, Continue reading
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
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
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
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
snow doesn’t stick
buds burst, robins return
it’s spring
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Friendly Fairy Tales 