Snow Angel, Sand Angel

Question 1

The whole class will make dioramas about the season they pick out of her straw beach hat.

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Question 2

Don’t let me get winter, I say to myself.

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Question 3

I reach in and spin the little papers around: Winter.

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Question 4

I’ve never even seen real snow!

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Question 5

To decorate his diorama, he uses cotton balls for snow on the ground.

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Question 6

Dried branches for dormant trees.

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Question 7

And white glitter to sprinkle on cotton-ball bald spots.

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Question 8

My father helps me finish mine.

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Question 9

Migration, I write.

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Question 10

Some birds fly away because it gets too cold.

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Question 11

And then I stop.

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Question 12

They come home.

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Question 13

In the wintertime, the golden plover comes home to our backyard.

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Question 14

He’s skinny and hungry from flying three thousand miles nonstop from Alaska!

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Question 15

I put my golden plover in the middle of the field.

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Question 16

But this all makes me sad.

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Question 17

My eyes grow big with excitement.

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Question 18

It’s three days old, my father sighs.

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Question 19

The storm came on Wednesday night.

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Question 20

Don’t run around too much on the summit or you’ll get dizzy.

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Question 21

We’re nearly inside the heavens.

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Question 22

There’s a lot less oxygen up here, so you better take it easy.

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Question 23

Oh, cripes I tell him, out of breath, and so dizzy I think I’ll be sick.

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Question 24

This is all we’ve got.

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Question 25

Cheer up my mother calls to us as she tries to snap some pictures.

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Question 26

No way I yell back.

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Question 27

I’ve got two tiny lava rocks for the eyes he says, placing them in the melting mound.

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Question 28

And I found this mamane branch for his pipe my father says.

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Question 29

I made this pickled plum from our own tree.

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Question 30

They stand back and admire the lumps of ice.

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Question 31

He places his ugly hunting cap on the stunted lump.

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Question 32

The stars, too.

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Question 33

Each and every beautiful star.

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Question 34

I don’t say anything.

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Question 35

I will grow wings and fly away, rise up from the highest mountain and take myself to another place, more beautiful and special than this island, the only place my father and his father before him have ever known.

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Question 36

The only place I know.

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Question 37

The beach is always right in your backyard, he says to me as he opens the car door to the smell of kiawe trees and ocean mist.

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Question 38

Use the two cowrie shells for his eyes.

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Question 39

And here’s some driftwood for his pipe.

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Question 40

A smooth pebble for his nose, offers my mother.

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Question 41

I begin gathering tiny pieces of white honeycomb coral.

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Question 42

My mother finds seaweed for his long hair of many colors.

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Question 43

I drag the sugarcane truck inner tube to the water.

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Question 44

My mother tells us the name of the sea creatures.

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Question 45

She shows us the rise and fall of hon’s head and the glide of his shiny turtle shell.

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Question 46

My father names the hundred winds that carry the fragrance of these waters to us near the far reef.

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Question 47

I run up and down the sloping shore, the waves catching me only when I get tired.

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Question 48

I run up and down the sloping shore, the waves catching me only when I get tired.

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Question 49

At the beach, I never feel dizzy or out of breath.

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Question 50

At the beach, I never feel dizzy or out of breath.

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Question 51

I lie down next to him.

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Question 52

You can grow wings in this place.

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Question 53

This very beautiful place that we know so well.

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Question 54

But I am not sad.

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Question 55

The setting sun is a volcanic orange sphere hovering above the horizon.

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Question 56

That was the autumn our rooms felt too big and lonely with only us in them and the darkness coming on so fast.

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Question 57

But while we hugged ourselves against the too-quiet of it all, we remembered that we didn’t have to be stuck anywhere anymore.