The Real Tin Flower
Vintage book
$40.00
With a foreword by Anne Sexton, the writer pens down her thoughts about the world at nine. I picked out the poem Time here:
The calenders pile up in a neat stack.
I knew they would.
I tried to forget about them
yet the days…
I am older now and still a child
but time is a thirsty germ.
I have one year left to play in this lot
and am afraid.
Some people think about
what they do
or the school they are to lose.
Others just let a river go by.
I never see what I am looking at.
I see what I think.
At night life is blue waves,
piers with stairs going down,
people who jump off and frighten
fish who swim away,
boy who dive from the top of the rail.
This is my real life.
FIRST PRINTING 1968
Hardcover
Drawings By Paul Giovanopoulos
- Origin:
- U.S.A.
- Period:
- 1968
- Author :
- Aliki Barnstone
