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"Summer Remembered"

By: Isabella Gardner

Sounds sum and summon the remembering of summers. The **humming** of the sun The **mumbling** in the honey-suckle vine The **whirring** in the clovered grass The **pizzicato plinkle** of ice in an auburn uncle's amber glass. The **whing** of father's racquet and the **whack** of brother's bat on cousin's ball and calling voices call- ing voices spilling voices... The **munching** of saltwater at the splintered dock the **slap** and **slop** of waves on little sloops The **quarreling** of oarlocks hours across the bay The canvas sails that **bleat** as they are blown. The heaving buoy bell- ing HERE I am HERE you are HEAR HEAR

listen listen listen The gramophone is wound the music goes round and around BYE BYE BLUES LINDY'S COMING voices calling calling calling "Children! Children! Time's Up Time's Up" Merrily sturdily wantonly the familial voices cheerily chidingly call to the children TIME'S UP and the mute children's unvoiced clamor sacks the summer air crying Mother Mother are you there?

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Isabella Gardner uses different onomatopoeia words to help the reader better understand her summer. They put a sound to the words to make the poem more realistic.

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