Kites and Tykes

The wind blew exactly right For the flying of a kite. Kites were nearly everywhere: In telephone wires And high in the trees, One or two were in the air, Blowing ever higher On a gentle breeze. Then all at once the wind increased; It blew and blew, it hardly ceased, Pulling all the kites so high Into the clouds, How high they go! Pulling children in the sky, Above the crowds That watch below! Children hanging by kite strings, Dangling over homes and things, Higher, higher, beyond sight, Each child dangled from a kite. Then there was a change in the weather. The wind stopped blowing altogether. Children fall, down they drop, one and all, Plop…plop…plop. This is another poem from the ongoing series "Lucifera's Questionable Daycare Poems and Stories." It previously had very minor publication in Pamela Olsen's mail art compilation zine The P&E Newsletter volume 2 number 9, October 1993.