After Woods's "Parson Weems' Fable"
The boy
with the gray hair
holding the axe
that cut down the cherry tree,
his father is happy,
for he didn't tell a lie.
I am the man pulling back the curtain.
I know the situation.
Little George's dad
shouldn't worry about George.
He holds the lives of the slaves
in the back of the picture,
their fingers tired
from picking cherries all day.
Taylor Davis
Hidden Valley Middle
7th Grade
