Joe Nye from House Beautiful
Read
a poem by Ann Turner.
Do you remember
learning to read?
learning to read?
That book full of squiggles
like ants, escaped.
like ants, escaped.
the teacher's big thumb
on the page,
your heart beating inside
afraid that all you'd ever see
was ants - - -
on the page,
your heart beating inside
afraid that all you'd ever see
was ants - - -
Mica Ertegun for Architectural Digest
Then a word popped out.
"See," and another, "cat,"
and my finger on teacher's
we read "I see cat."
and my finger on teacher's
we read "I see cat."
I ran around the room -
so happy I saw words -
instead of ants.