Lawrence Hall, HSG
Rain Puddles and Children
For Nora and Theo
Our boat-captain neighbor is home from the sea1
(Okay, the Gulf of Mexico)
And this morning took his children for a walk
Along our road, and stopped to visit with me -
Nora watches and listens, but Theo loves to talk
Talktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalk
He wildly rushes his sentences and words
Words piled in heaps - he has so much to say!
But Nora in silence celebrates flowers and birds
She sees whole worlds in puddles along the way
And into them Theo LEAPS!
We know this world is in a bit of a muddle
But when children splash through a rain-filled puddle
They make everything better
1Cf. “Requiem,” Robert Louis Stevenson. The context is entirely
different.
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