After the Rain
English 8 course anthology
A complete poem for close reading, discussion, and writing.
1
The gutter keeps a silver thread. A sparrow shakes the roof awake. The paper boat I thought was dead turns once beside the garden gate.
2
I nudge it with a broken stick; it sails beyond my muddy shoe. The street is ordinary brick. The street is somewhere strange and new.
Original teaching text written for this course. People, organizations, quotations, and data in this selection are fictional unless explicitly identified as historical. Reuse with the course materials.