Up from the Blue by Susan Henderson

Author:Susan Henderson [Henderson, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-06-201177-0
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

I had no idea what a “magnolia” was. The other words I knew, but they seemed like they were in the wrong order. Still, I loved how she read the poem into the top of my head, her lips touching. It was a feeling of being in a brand new world and wondering how I’d ever tolerated the old one. “Read some more,” I begged.

Momma read from other books that night—strange, serious books that were nothing like the ones I’d read before. Each time she finished, she passed me the book, warmed from her hands, with her favorite passages underlined perfectly in felt-tipped marker.

When I was so tired I didn’t think I could make it back up the stairs, I waited for a space in Momma’s talking, where I could say good-night. She seemed to sense I was about to go, and whispered, “I love you the best.” She said it with a kind of fierceness.

“Do you want to come with me?” I asked as I opened the door. This was a test to see if she wanted to escape, or if she was too afraid.

“I better stay here,” she said, and smiled with her lips closed, one side of her mouth curling upward, the other side flat and guarding her secret.

At the bottom of my pocket, I felt for a piece of paper that had been folded over and over into a small square. I dusted the cracker crumbs off of it and handed it to Momma, my hand shaking. It was my poem about the moon.

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