Be a snail, by Roy Moss

partly wandering, partly home

and keep moving in the rain.

Raindrops fall like rocks,

they pummel the ground

and the snail is fine.

Is fine.

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Roy Moss has been a primary school librarian for over ten years. He has studied English and Children’s Literature and writes poems and prose in his spare time. He lives in a semi-rural village in Hampshire and can be found pottering around the local countryside.