Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
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July rain
streaks of fire
light up the sky
heat wave
in the distant sky
an eagle glides
heat wave –
a cold wave
without gloves
snowball …
lazy thoughts
during the heat wave
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