This is just to say, by Sarah Meade

(an apology poem after William Carlos Williams)

I have slurped
all the magic potion
that I found
in the cupboard

and which
you were probably
saving
for a special someday

Forgive me
it tasted of tangerines
and tinges of mischief
and now I can fly

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Sarah Meade has been published in Hop to It: Poems to Get You Moving, Babybug, Ladybug, Highlights Hello, High Five, and more. She is a PAL member of SCBWI, Little Free Library steward, mother of two, and constant reader. Originally from northern New York, she now lives in North Carolina.