Rooster Summer by Robert Heidbreder

Author:Robert Heidbreder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Published: 2018-03-06T13:46:13+00:00

Spilling the Beans

Grandma’s making us a snack.

“You’re quiet,” she says.

“Quiet as a pack

on the back of Seed-Sack.”

We laugh a little,

and then we start to cry.

Grandma takes her hand towel

and wipes our eyes dry.

“Spill the beans,” she whispers.

“Spill them all.”

We tell her through thick tears

about the scared, hungry stranger in the barn

and what we did.

Then we ask again and again,

“Was it wrong? Was it wrong?”

Grandma rings the big brass dinner bell

out the kitchen window to get Grandpa.

When he comes, we tell him our story.

He and Grandma take our hands gently

and lead us quietly, lovingly to the barn.

At the door, we pull back,

but they both press us on, up to the loft.

The sad, hungry man is gone.

He’s left the milk jug and a short note too.

In crumpled, rough letters it says,

“Thank you.”

Under the paper is a piece of rough wood.

It’s whittled to look like a rooster toy.

“Rexster! Rexster!” we clap-chant together.

We shed our fear and bounce in joy.

“No,” Grandpa says.

“You didn’t do wrong. No wrong.

But next time just tell us

to come out and along.

Okay?”

“Okay?” Grandma adds.

“Okay! Okay!” we say,

enfolded in hugs.

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