Morning Warming

By Joyce Sidman
sun
sunwarm
sunwarm on back
sunwarm on back legs
sunwarm on back legs loosens
            my heart
            my heart beats
            my heart beats faster
            in sunwarm my heart beats faster
                        I flex
                        I flex legs
                        I flex legs loose with sunwarm
                        I drink dew from dripping leaves
                        I beat
                                    flex
                                                crouch
                        leap!
 
                                                What am I?  
(grasshopper)
 


Copyright Credit: Joyce Sidman, "Morning Warming" from Butterly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow. Copyright © 2006 by Joyce Sidman. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Source: Butterly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)