Math Lesson (from the Garden), by Irene Latham

after Still Life of Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves (1889) by Vincent van Gogh

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It takes
two blue
gloves

plus one
wicker
basket

to hold
nine
just-plucked

suns.

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Irene Latham is a grateful creator of many novels, poetry collections, and picture books, including the co-authored Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, which earned a Charlotte Huck Honor, and The Cat Man of Aleppo, which won a Caldecott Honor. Irene lives on a lake in rural Alabama. irenelatham.com