Prompt:

“If you had only one wish, what would it be?” Miriam Flores, age 7

That’s the whole prompt. Write about your wish. I could not choose just one, and so I wrote about so, so many.

Poem 22/30 excerpt

And I say no violence

no racism

no police

never any guns

or anything to hurt

no hurting

no hunger

no aching

no trauma

no pain

no disease

no pollution.

More poetry

more June Jordan

on the train

on the bookshelves.

More kindness

like Naomi Shihab Nye

writes. More holding.

More kisses in the dark

more sunshine

on playgrounds

more swing-sets

and bicycles.

Say more bread

for everyone

and clean oceans

and never plastic

or anything that hurts

or could hurt

or has a future

of hurting.