My Pa
BY J. PATRICK LEWIS
Emma Wallace, 23
Farm Hand
Seymour, Iowa
I came hungry
into the world,
and for that,
look no further
than my Pa.
A history buff
and a small-p
poet, he built
so many book-
shelves, our house
became the local
lending library.
At least to those few
who knew a book
to be a friend.
J. Patrick Lewis, “My Pa” from Voices from the March on Washington. Copyright © 2014 by J. Patrick Lewis. Reprinted by permission of Highlights for Children/Boyds Mills Press.
Source: Voices from the March on Washington (Wordsong, 2014)