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After school some of us go home and some of us stay for After School and Enrichment. Last month some of us had a chance to work with Henry and write a poem called “Spring is Coming!” Henry really liked what we did so he shared it with some of his friends who are writers. Then he got a note from Eli Nadeau, who is the Editor-in-Chief at LIT: The Journal of the New School Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program, saying she liked the poem. Henry asked Eli to write us a note and she did! She wrote a note to the Sandpipers and the Owls. It was awesome that some of our work was read by someone far away. It is like we are famous! Here is the poem:

Spring is Coming!

The buds are coming out.
It gets warmer.
You swim in your pools
In the ocean.
The leaves are coming.
They fall over.
The animals read books
And have their babies.
The sun comes out of the sky
And dances in the air with the moon.
They get married in a cloud city
Inside an invisible lollipop.
Two clowns come to the wedding
And rub together to make thunder,
One thousand a million stars.
I come to the wedding, too.
The lightning comes to the wedding.
The knight comes to the wedding
On a limousine with wings.
Darth Vader comes and has a light saber fight
With the knight.
The knight loses because he does not have a light saber.
A bird flies into your back.
It snows.
It rains.
There is mud and I put my face in it.
Then Princess Leia comes and wins a trophy.
A bird with crazy hair flies into your face.
Owls fly into people’s homes
And peck the people’s heads.

--Written Collaboratively by Afterschool Students



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