Tests
BY SARA HOLBROOK AND ALLAN WOLF
Her
Focusing on blanks,
A, B, C, all of above.
Your eyes lock on mine.
Brain now a washing machine—
facts, letters tumble and spin.
Him
Tests are less trouble
for me since I have met you.
Is it possible?
Can having you in my life
increase the size of my brain?
Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf, “Tests” from More Than Friends. Copyright © 2008 by Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf. Reprinted by permission of Highlights for Children/Boyds Mills Press.
Source: More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her (Wordsong , 2008)