I’ve accumulated so much poetry and living books.
Duties are Smaug, keeping this textual treasure
hidden, stored, unshared.
It’s Durin Day for this word-hoard.
At that very moment he heard a sharp crack behind him. There on the grey stone in the grass was an enormous thrush, nearly coal black, its pale yellow breast freckled with dark spots. Crack! It had caught a snail and was knocking it on the stone. Crack! Crack!
Poems will be shared from two Spanish-language anthologies.
(1) Poesía española para niños
- editada por Ana Pelegrín
(2) La luciérnaga: antología para niños de la poesía Mexicana contemporánea (1991)
- editada por Francisco Serrano
- ilustrada por Alberto Blanco
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