The Candy Smash by Jacqueline Davies

Author:Jacqueline Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

"It's a metaphor!" shouted Nina, pointing to the photo of Langston that said METAPHORS BE WITH YOU. Mrs. Overton had taught them how poets sometimes use one thing to mean something else.

"Yes!" said Mrs. Overton. "What's the metaphor?" Almost half the class raised their hands.

"The fog is a cat," answered Taffy.

"That's just what fog is like," said Maddy. "It's like a cat, the way it creeps around." And Evan agreed. He had never thought about it before, but now he would always think of a cat when he saw fog creeping across his backyard.

Jessie shook her head. "Fog is not like a cat. Not at all. Fog is vapor. It's drops of water in the air. A cat is an animal. It's a solid, and it's alive. The two are nothing alike."

What Jessie said was true, and yet—Evan could see it. He could see the fog with its long tail curling around the corner of a house, arching its back as it rubbed up against a building and purred. He could imagine fog purring. How did the poet do that?

"What about the second poem?" asked Megan.

Everyone looked expectantly at Mrs. Overton, and Evan thought he saw her face turn just the slightest bit pink.

"Well, the second poem is written by me, actually. I wrote it yesterday at the animal hospital."

"You wrote a poem?" asked Adam. "But you're a teacher!"

"Teachers can write poems," said Mrs. Overton. "Anyone can. I'm not saying mine is as good as Mr. Sandburg's, but it's mine, and I like it."

Evan couldn't believe that Mrs. Overton had written a poem. He leaned forward and watched as she turned the easel paper and began reading.

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