"Learning to Read . . . "

Joe Nye from House Beautiful

Read

a poem by Ann Turner.

Joe Minton

Do you remember
learning to read?

James Burrow's home by Michael Smith

from Elle Decor

That book full of squiggles
like ants, escaped.

Alessandra Branca from

House Beautiful

the teacher's big thumb
on the page,
your heart beating inside
afraid that all you'd ever see
was ants - - -

Mica Ertegun for Architectural Digest

Then a word popped out.

The home of Badgley Mischka

from Elle Decor

"See," and another, "cat,"
and my finger on teacher's
we read "I see cat."

Albert Hadley

I ran around the room -

Markham Roberts

from House Beautiful

so happy I saw words -

Suzanne Lovell

instead of ants.

Thomas Britt

I can remember the day I learned to read. It was also the day that a knew that I wanted a library in my home.

Cheers,

tartanscot