SAMPLES
Special Thanks
The Instrument
Twists and turns
Shaving away
What doesn't belong
From square to round
Exposing the heart
And reaching a purpose
Slender and smooth
Shiny and colorful
Ready to communicate
Sue Camilleri
The Chippewa Teacher's Basket
By the banks of the green bay
She cut the reeds just so.
Slit them open, smoothed flat
And formed this basket.
Squat and round it sits
The reeds plaited just so.
Fitted with the lid
To hold these words.
You blessed her hungry child
With McGuffey and math, just so.
The metrics of the white man's world
And she made you this basket.
In memory of EMB, Patty Nolan