The Gift
You were always so warm,
so good to me during
that year of the evil cold.
You protected me from wild
storms that came out of
nowhere like ice cream trucks
passing in the night.
I still hide myself in you,
soft red sweater.
Tamara Castro
6th grade
Luther Burbank Middle School
Poetry in the Windows Youth Workshop
Instructor: Suzanne Lummis, poet
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