Lawn

gnomes,
plastic dinosaurs,
embellish the grass.
Randomly placed, standing in
a mess of garden furniture.
Bill and Ben the flowerpot men
wave hello to Snow White.
She is leaning to
one side, all
the way
across
the lawn
among her six
dwarfs, who lost a
brother in the tumult of
repainting the fence. What
a lovely way
to spend
a
Sunday afternoon.

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Lizzie Chadbourne, age 12
2009 Finalist
Mill Valley, California
Greenwood School
Teacher: Devika Brandt