#153 ‘Morning
preparations’
You swept the
verandah for them.
You put more
prizes in the prize box.
You displayed a
new alphabet
and swept the
floor again.
You checked your
word cards
and all the
while the crow
sat outside
talking to itself
about creation,
seasons, beetles
and crusts it
thought the children
had promised to
leave behind each day.
You sharpened
pencils
and replaced the
reading books
in their boxes
while the crow
laughed at
something it had just said
to itself in the
tree, the tree stirring
with its dark
and solid presence.
You put out a
word game for them.
You faced some
book covers
outwards for
them, hoping they would
lean in and take
one and look through it
and want to read
it while the crow
went on with a
story of lost
baubles, mainly
blue things,
and its memory
of the taste of milk.
In a few actions, and the powerful presences of crow and tree, you create so much more than is on the page.
ReplyDelete(It sounds like a small country schoolyard. Is the tree a peppercorn?)
this made me smile, delightful
ReplyDeleteIt really evokes the rhythm of that time in the morning, before school starts, and all the preparation that goes into the day. The crow is wonderful.
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