Creature Camouflage

Hills, Humps, Hair Sand Everywhere  Camel Fur, Fierce, Fast Rippling Grass Tiger Dark, Damp, Danger Blackish Layer Bat Hole, Home, Hollow  Roomy Burrow  Prairie Dog  Bark, Beard, Bobbling Night Robbing Owl Tall, Tepid, Tree Munching Leaf Giraffe  Float, Fly, Flutter Wings Upward Butterfly 

A Place For Baby Kittens

A mother cat delighted with spring and carrying six baby kittens, set out to find a nice dry, soft, quiet, and warm home at the farmyard. She waddle down the gravel lane and spotted a juniper bush that was tall and scraggly. It had several orangish limbs dappled with greenery. “What a lovely spot” she said and tested it out …

The Case of the Missing Eye

London a historic city, a prominent city, a city of mystery. “Puzzling Disappearance” topping the headlines of morning post newspaper. “The London Eye bordering the Thames River has vanished. What is the city to do, it’s number one tourist attraction is missing.” Henry Holmes, not to be confused with The Sherlock Holmes, read the titles in his dinosaur pajamas while …

First Hen

Demetrius sat on the edge of the families wooden wagon. It was several decades old, covered in straw, held together by rust. He began to swing his short legs back and forth to a ballet melody he once heard on the radio. Back and forth he rocked, humming like an engine. It was the late 1960s in Kharkiv Ukraine, a …

Grandma Far Away

To Grandma Far Away we drive, and drive and drive. Her car is big it smells like perfume we listen to easy listening songs. I eat ginger snaps as we travel on. Grandma Far Away has a yellow house, with soft, soft grass. There is one bathroom and it’s pink I love it! Pink toilet, pink sink, pink tub. I …

Grandma Nearby

Grandma Nearby lives on a farm. I ride my bike to her house. I feel the Sun on my back, I smell the sweet wheat as I pedal. I hear the wind blow and see the crops flow in a wave like pattern. I taste dust in the air, I feel it on my fingers as they grip the handles. …

Right Brain Reed and Left Brain Lucy

Right Brained Reed and Left Brained Lucy Reed likes to paint, Reed likes write. Reed likes to do wheelies on his bike. Lucy likes to clean, Lucy likes to learn. Lucy likes to take turns. Reed eats apple squares, Reed drinks coconut milk, Reed sleeps in sheets of silk. Lucy eats orange slices, Lucy drinks chocolate milk, Lucy sleeps under …

Flower by The Hour

9 o’clock morning glory start the day on dainty vines pinwheel displays 10 o’clock dew drops dry on pansies pretty petals in the suns shine 11 o’clock clematis climb white flowers on wood trellis before lunchtime 12 o’clock the impatiens faint thirsty from the sun like drops of paint 1 o’clock zinnias rise pink origami opens upward toward the sky …