Bird by Noy Holland

Author:Noy Holland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619026650
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2015-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

The baby hooks Bird’s lip with her finger: the baby wants Bird to sing. So she sings: little snowflake, white shell, that one. And kisses all ten toes. Bird counts her lucky stars to eleven and quits. Thinks: quit while you can and hide them, woman. The gods are greedy, too.

She cranks the music, dances the baby upstairs. It helps. A little sunshine helps. Dewfall soon. She ought to walk back out without shoes. Pass her toes through the early glittery wet, the grass with its sparky dew.

Sparky—that’s her boy’s word.

Count of three. Look both ways twice.

Now move on.

Take a picture.

“Hey, hey, Mama. Take a little one of me.”

“It’s a little bit, it’s a little bit, it’s a little bit hot,” her boy says.

And drops his pants from the bridge.

“Hey, take a little one of me.”

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