A Maze Me Poems for Girls Rose A very large spider wove her fancy web between the Don Juan rosebush and the Queen's Crown vine. We greeted her every day going in and out. We had so many destinations but she just swung there in the air in the day's long stare that grows so hot by four o'clock we boycott the whole front yard. By evening we'd be outside again breathing jasmine watering honeysuckle plucking mint and she'd be wrapping her little flies and wasps in sticky sacks. The trolley rang its bell at us and we waved back. It was nice living with Rose. Living our different lives side by side. One night wild thunder shook the trees, the sky crackled and split, the winds blew hard and by morning Rose was gone. Did she wash away? Did she find a safer home? She keeps spinning her elegant web inside us so long so long after the light made it shine. A Maze Me Poems for Girls . Copyright © by Naomi Nye. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
