Today's word is "rapt" ... deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener. (dictionary.com)
Hello?
The nine-year-olds were engrossed
in their game. Paying rapt attention.
No amount of cajoling could get
them to turn their heads. But my
little painting had gone missing,
set down in a moment of confusion.
So I enlisted help. "Whoever finds
the painting gets a dollar!"
Two heads whipped up in unison.
What? Where? How big ... Amazing!
Their hearing restored as if by miracle!
But their mother found it. And
made nothing at all.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2014
Hello?
The nine-year-olds were engrossed
in their game. Paying rapt attention.
No amount of cajoling could get
them to turn their heads. But my
little painting had gone missing,
set down in a moment of confusion.
So I enlisted help. "Whoever finds
the painting gets a dollar!"
Two heads whipped up in unison.
What? Where? How big ... Amazing!
Their hearing restored as if by miracle!
But their mother found it. And
made nothing at all.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2014
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