a perfect heart

I searched our catalog for Valentines Day books. 15 titles were pulled up. I looked for electronic books that I might use right now. In e-brary there is a poetry book titled Valentines by Ted Kooser. This poem seems so appropriate for today.

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A PERFECT HEART

To make a perfect heart you take a sheet
of red construction paper of the type
that’s rough as a cat’s tongue, fold it once,
and crease it really hard, so it feels
as if your thumb might light up like a match,

then choose your scissors from the box. I like
those safety scissors with the sticky blades
as you snip along. They make you careful,
just as you should be, cutting out a heart

for someone you love. Don’t worry that your curve
won’t make a valentine; it will. Rely
on chewing on your lip and symmetry
to guide your hand along with special art.
And there it is at last: a heart, a heart!

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Kooser, Ted; Hanna, Robert (Illustrator). Valentines.
Lincoln, NE, USA: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. p 16.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/chattcollege/Doc?id=10217011&ppg=16
Copyright © 2007. University of Nebraska Press. All rights reserved.

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