Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Favorite Poem from "Sound and Sense"

To a Daughter Leaving Home
By Linda Pastan

When I taught you
at eight to ride
a bicycle, loping along
beside you
as you wobbled away
on two round wheels,
my own mouth rounding
in surprise when you pulled
ahead down the curved
path of the park,
I kept waiting
for the thud
of your crash as I
sprinted to catch up,
while you grew
smaller, more breakable
with distance,
pumping, pumping
for your life, screaming
with laughter,
the hair flapping
behind you like a
handkerchief waving
goodbye.

Paston, Linda. "To a daughter leaving home." Sound and Sense.Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.

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