Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Fifth July Selection

Inga’s Poem


She will eat some applesauce

but will not take a prune


If I had blueberries

or raspberries

blue for her eyes

red for her cheeks


but I do not


If I had blueberries or raspberries

we would laugh

both of us


She would grasp berries

red and blue in her small white hand

sticky juice would stain

her lips and cheeks and chin


And if I had blueberries or raspberries

both of us would laugh

while she

filled her mouth

handful by purple handful

with summer


--Claire Josephine

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