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First Poems

Nanna traces finger-rhymes around my hand:
tickling poems.
 
Pictures in my sister’s book
speak poetry, and I want her book 
to be mine.
 
Miss Fernside points to words
beside her drawings
on the easel;
 
I love Miss Fernside.
 
First poems breathe.

Copyright © Jeanette Swan

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