HEARTBEAT by Sharon Creech List Price: $15.99 Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover ISBN: 0060540222 Publisher: Joanna Cotler, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Footfalls

Thump-thump, thump-thump

bare feet hitting the grass

as I run run run

in the air and like the air

weaving through the trees

skimming over the ground


touching down

thump-thump, thump-thump

here and there

there and here

in the soft damp grass


thump-thump, thump-thump

knowing I could fly fly fly

but letting my feet

thump-thump, thump-thump


touch the earth


at least for now . . .

Excerpted from HEARTBEAT © Copyright 2004 by Sharon Creech. Reprinted with permission by Joanna Cotler. All rights reserved.

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