And Later . . .
By Jen Bryant
I take my kaleidoscope off the shelf,
look through the little hole at the end
of the cardboard tube;
I turn and turn and turn and turn,
letting the crystals shift into strange
and beautiful patterns, letting the pieces fall
wherever they will.
Copyright Credit: Jen Bryant, "And Later..." from Kaleidoscope Eyes. Copyright © 2004 by Jennifer Bryant. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Source: Kaleidoscope Eyes (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)