Collage mermaid

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1. Rachel

   February 17, 2010

   I like this idea! May use it for my class sometime if you don’t mind. Do you know the poem Magic Box by Kit Wright?

   I will put in the box

   the swish of a silk sari on a summer night,
   fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon,
   the tip of a tongue touching a tooth.

   I will put in the box

   a snowman with a rumbling belly
   a sip of the bluest water from Lake Lucerene,
   a leaping spark from an electric fish.

   I will put into the box

   three violet wishes spoken in Gujarati,
   the last joke of an ancient uncle,
   and the first smile of a baby.

   I will put into the box

   a fifth season and a black sun,
   a cowboy on a broomstick
   and a witch on a white horse.

   My box is fashioned from ice and gold and steel,
   with stars on the lid and secrets in the corners.
   Its hinges are the toe joints of dinosaurs.

   I shall surf in my box
   on the great high-rolling breakers of the wild Atlantic,
   then wash ashore on a yellow beach
   the colour of the sun.

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