Poetry Friday: Frame, Mask and Mirror and The Heart (JonArno Lawson)

Think Again (Kids Can Press, 2010), by JonArno Lawson, explores love from the point of view of a teen boy and girl. Forty-three very short rhyming poems reveal longings and questionings and regrets in poetry, and the line drawings (by Julie Morstad) show a vague story arc. The poems are mostly abstract, big-picture musings, but they’re lovely. Here are two of my favorites: Frame, Mask and Mirror I’m trying to see you You won’t let me nearer Than frame to a picture Or mask to a mirror –JonArno Lawson, all rights reserved The Heart Make sure that your heart Isn’t too well defended: Your heart is designed To be broken and mended. –JonArno Lawson, all rights reserved

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