Wish

By Linda Sue Park
For someone to read a poem
again, and again, and then,

having lifted it from page
to brain—the easy part—

cradle it on the longer trek
from brain all the way to heart.

Copyright Credit: Linda Sue Park, "Wish" from Tap Dancing on the Roof. Copyright © 2007 by Linda Sue Park.  Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Source: Tap Dancing on the Roof (Clarion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2007)