the Scavengers
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- If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by -1
- with half a smile and half a spurn, as housewives do a fly.-3
- Giving up summer? Brushing it away like a fly? And miss this sunshine?-5
- Imagine, Maggie! -4
- "imagine, Maggie!" says Ma pretending to be horrified.-4
- the sun cuts through a hole in the leaves and shines on the page Emily's words, all lit up -2
- i roll my eyes-6
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- Ma. She's talking about making time go faster so she can be with someone she loves.-1
- Well, it seems like . . . -3
- Trick question, when a poem is just right, it's your own hart you hear talking.-5
- Very good, dear, but is it Emily talking or the poem talking?-2
- My mom's face just lit up, and it's not just the Sunshine. She looks younger and Not so tired. Tea and Poetry-and time with me-do this for her. -5
- i say, then I kinda bog down.-4
- Think of that first sip of tea, how the steam wets the tip of your nose, the scent of it, the freshness of the flavor, the cautious way you tip the cup to your lips to test the temperature . . . -3
- We raise our way through three more poems. One is about a bird chopping up a worm. it sounds awful but by the end she is talking about butterflies leaping into afternoon like afternoon is lake, And you can't believe how beautiful the words are. -1
- Ma closes the book. Ma says it doesn't do to read poems in gulps.-2
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