Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Jane Yolen - Escaping Bonn

Escaping Bonn

Sometimes a boy, a girl,
with too much imagination
or too much despair, 
looks for an escape,
a bolt hole, digs a tunnel,
finds a dot, an opening,
a moment in time. 
Takes it, shapes it,
 big enough for one,
too small for another.
There is an odd safety in retreat. 
A miracle to manage.
It is not how you get out that matters.
It is what you do next.  


                                     for Herr Beethoven--

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I've often thought that there's nothing Jane Yolen cannot write wonderfully about, including, I am sure, topics I've never even imagined writing about. Some of them, no doubt, appearing in her nearly 400 published books (!!!!!). I consider myself so lucky that she said yes to joining us here at 30 Poets/30 Days again, and I hope y'all skedaddle off to her website to see the incredible titles she has out there for you.


2 comments:

April Halprin Wayland said...

Oh...that last line. It is, indeed about what we do next.

Laurie Young said...

Just the poem I need right now.