Yesterday’s poem featured spiders in a rather unappetizing way. So for today’s poem, I’ve chosen a beautiful spider poem from Sweet Dreams of the Wild: Poems for Bedtime (Wordsong, 1996–illustrated by Katharine Dodge). Rebecca Kai Dotlich is one of my favorite poets–and a lovely person as well, and this book, her first children’s poetry book, has her characteristic heart and dynamic, right-there, makes-you-see-hear-feel-it word choices. Here’s one I love:
Black spider, I sleep in a web –Rebecca Kai Dotlich, all rights reserved |
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