JOANNA M. WESTON. Married; has two cats, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses. Her middle-reader, Those Blue Shoes, published by Clarity House Press; and poetry, A Summer Father, published by Frontenac House of Calgary. Her eBooks found at her blog: http://www.1960willowtree.wordpress.com/
Country Lore
a child's face hangs in the maple tree
half a smile away from cloud-land
he captures the wind on his eyelashes
tucks chickadees into his pockets
to let them go in class
for the teacher to put on canvas
so that city kids
might know the flight
of small birds
