Life with Samantha

She fell in Monponsett Pond
last week, in two feet
of water off
Grandma's pier.
... Daddy fished her out.

Sam was shivering
more surprised than scared
Derisive only because
of the suddenness
and no tears ...

Soon again she was
happy around Woo's
and Purdees !

Patrick Darnell (1983)