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And Later . . .

I take my kaleidoscope off the shelf,
look through the little hole at the end
of the cardboard tube;

I turn       and turn       and turn       and turn,

letting the crystals shift into strange
and beautiful patterns, letting the pieces fall
wherever they will.
Jen Bryant, "And Later..." from Kaleidoscope Eyes. Copyright © 2004 by Jennifer Bryant. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Source: Kaleidoscope Eyes (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)