image c.1986 Walter Gaffney-Kessell, The Sea is Calling Me
On an August Day
by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Ocean waves rush in
just in time
to give the shore-brids’
hot burning legs
a cool, cool bath.
c. 1986 Lee Bennett Hopkins
from THE SEA IS CALLING ME
poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins with illustrations by Walter Gaffney-Kessel
Bookseedstudio mentioned this book previously, here. And so my heart found these lines, thinking of our dear LBH:
On an August Day
It was time to
sing
the last
line
c. 2019JanGodownAnnino
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