Children

Sonya

Sonya walks
Like the bamboo leaf
Holding the water droplet
Until it falls.

Sonya walks
With dancing hands,
Planting each foot
Towards those she loves.

Kevin

Today a tiny seed
Floated on my breath,
Moving as Kevin moved,
Our second son,
Who saw the world
So small and cried,
"A beauty, a beauty!"

[Two poems by Virginia McKinnon Mann, printed on the same page. August, 1995.]