Fish In A Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Oh no. She thinks I’m a barrel full of crazy,

I don’t know why the things in my brain get lost on the way down my arm.

It comes from a place so deep inside, it’s like it’s coming out of the ground.

‘Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.’”

if you could have an unlimited amount of any single object, what would it be? It can’t be magical, have special powers, or anything like that. Just an ordinary, everyday type of object.”

Grit.