“Children’s Summer Field,” New Era, Aug. 1994, 27
Children’s Summer Field
Childhood is summertime
Or summer was made for children.
They take a weed-infested field
And see a sea of protective amusement.
One-by-one, they pluck up a translusive lollipop
And set the seeds violently in the wind
By breathing laughter into the delicate globe,
Then they watch the currents carry Mary
Poppins and her umbrella on missions of
creation, up, up, and into invisibility.
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