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In Just-Spring, when the world is mud-luscious...

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National Poetry Day:

nobody loses all the time...

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Puddle-wonderful describes our Michigan weather today :)

I love the language in "balloonman," it is very evocative of early spring, but doesn't the balloonman seem sinister? He brings to mind the childcatcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."

Me too - I thought I was the only one that made that connection. That character scared me when I was a kid!

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