Hello All! Today’s prompt is to write a poem based on an index. And this poem is inspired by the index in my favorite book on children’s literature, Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult, by Bruce Handy.
imagination …and Aesop; mules, morals, foxes …and animal stories; just so, beloved bests …and Baum; witches, wizards, striped soxes …and Cleary; friends, siblings, pests …and Dr. Seuss; cats, hats, Horton, whos …and Good Night Moon; air, cow, hush, kittens …and Milne; donkeys, piglets, poohs …and Potter; rabbits, foxes, mice, mittens …and red wheelbarrow; chickens, rain …and Sendak; Max, monsters, wild …and White; some pig, spider humane …and Wind in the Willows; animals, beguiled
