Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Great Regulars: How often have you wondered

what might be going on inside a child's head? They can be so much more free and playful with their imaginations than adults, and are so good at keeping those flights of fancy secret and mysterious, that even if we were told what they were thinking we might not be able to make much sense of it. Here Ellen Bass, of Santa Cruz, California, tells us of one such experience.

Dead Butterfly

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 164

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