Writing poetry,

                           entering a word rumpus,

                           consonants and vowels,

                           sounds tumbling

                           into songs—light and dark—

                           verbal rivers,

                           the wonder of words.

  

 

Thanks, Maurice Sendak, for attaching us to rumpus, the word and the experience.                         

                                                                Pat Mora 

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