“Do penguins feel the cold?”
“Can all hippos wiggle their ears?”
“Are bats afraid of the dark?”
Bryan stood restless and hot beside the gorilla enclosure wishing one of his classmates would ask if a child could ever be sure his parents loved him if they never told him so.
Melissa is a sweet pea enthusiast living in Canada.
My knee knocked the leg,
pencil thrummed the tabletop.
My gaze wandered:
Water pitcher? Commonplace.
Handmade spoon rest? Sentimental.
A bee rebounded off the window.
Then Amalie, ecstatic:
“Mom! Have you ever
stuck your nose
into a sweet pea
and breathed so deep
you thought you’d
gone to heaven?”
Perfect.
Melissa is a sweet pea enthusiast living in Canada.