Once my teacher set me on a high stool
for laughing. She thought the eyes
of my classmates would whittle me to size.
But they said otherwise.

We'd laugh too if we knew how.

I pinned my gaze out the window
on a ripe line of sky.

That's where I was going.

-from "Fuel" by  Naomi Shihab Nye

 

Comments

[Mick Mather]

Warm, wonderful and beautifully done ... all the way 'round.

[Lisa]

Such beautiful colors!

[Amy]

'a ripe line of sky'--that describes this photo perfectly.

[Aravis]

Just lovely. :0)