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Little girl,
golden curls bouncing,
tries to run in
lime green rain boots.
“Hi Daddy! Look! It’s
Daddy!” she shrieks,
quickens her pace to greet him.
Arms up high.
Full speed ahead.
Lips pursed in concentration,
she jumps, groans, tries to
touch the sun.
We laugh, but
stop ourselves from
saying, “you can’t.”
Little girl,
golden curls bouncing,
runs home in rain boots,
dreaming of jet planes.
About the Author
Heather Grace Stewart’s poems have been published in Canadian newspapers and literary journals, online journals, international print anthologies, and in the British small presses. Her most recent collection of poems is Where the Butterflies Go (available here http://www.lulu.com/content/1506907 with half the proceeds going to Unicef’s Gift of Education project and other third-world school projects); she has also penned two non-fiction books for youth published by Jackfruit Press and writes regularly for the Queen’s Alumni Review, Canadian Wildlife magazine and Wild! magazine for children. Her photographs have appeared in Equinox and National Geographic Traveler magazines and on the cover of a dozen poetry books. Born in Ottawa, she lives with her family near Montreal. Visit her at her official website, hgrace.com
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