Murray's Loss, Morrie's Gain
or, The Silent Treatment
Murray lost his little clam
one day along the beach.
He feared it had been swept away
by surf, beyond his reach.
He searched the shore, both high and low,
combed every grain of sand.
He called to it. It answered not:
clams are a silent band.
Morrie found that little clam
amid the tide's debris.
He talked to it, but mute the clam
remained as in the sea.
He took it off to school one day.
The clam broke not a rule:
the best behaved in class it was—
no doubt in all the school.
by Julian D. Woodruff
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Julian D. Woodruff came to literary invention while telling authorities in East Berlin how he lost his passport. His poetry appears on the websites of Carmina and The Society of Classical Poets. Reedsy and Frostfire Worlds have each issued a short story. He is a member of the Rochester, NY Area Children's Writers and Illustrators and SCBWI.