Monday, November 5, 2018

Shoal (Monday Poem)

by Nicola Davies


Swirl, swish.
Twirl, twist.
Flash, flick.
Gleam, glint.

All turn, all dive,
all eyes open wide.

Ten thousand bodies move in time.
a moving, swimming, living rhyme.



from A First Book of the Sea
by Nicola Davies
Illustrated by Emily Sutton
Candlewick, 2018 

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