Author: Zachary Schomburg
Cited by
- Adam Rapp (1)
- IN: The Children and the Wolves (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You are in a very high tree.
If you jump
you will live a full life
while falling.
You will get married
to a hummingbird
and raise beautiful part-
hummingbirds.
You will die of cancer
in mid-air.
I will not lie.
It will be painful.
You are a brave little boy
or girl.
FROM: Falling Life, (2009), Poem, US