One Night by Margaret Wild

Author:Margaret Wild [Wild, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-48907-4
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2006-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

I tear up the list

when I remember

list-making is one of

my father's favorite occupations.

HELEN scary

Only when my stomach

starts to swell

do I truly understand.

This is real.

There really is someone

growing inside me,

someone who's going to depend

on me.

Me.

the beggar

Mrs. Evans dreams

she is lining up

at a bus stop on George Street.

A scruffy young woman

is begging.

Idly, Mrs. Evans notes

the frowsy blond hair,

the shuffling feet,

the bowed head,

as the woman silently

holds out her hand.

People shake their heads,

or look away, feeling invaded.

Only when the woman gets close

does Mrs. Evans realize…

“Leanne?”

Her heart lurches,

but the woman trails away,

remote as a sleepwalker,

and is lost in the crowd.

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