Thursday, September 8, 2011

NOW
Close the bar-b-que.

Close the sun.

Close the home run games we won.

Close the picnic.

Close the pool.

Close the summer.

Open school!
by Prince Redcloud

(This poem is from the Lasting Impressions: Weaving Literature into the Writing Workshop by Shelley Harwayne and published by Heinemann)

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