Footsteps in the Ginger – or A Child’s Jungle of Verses

I lay face down on the ginger earth
At the door to the door of my dream
Slicing the plump apple sky
As it swum in an ocean of cream.

Sugar-puffs drifted high overhead
And a clock hid its face with its hands
For time had lost its slippers
A-dancing on the sands…

Words & Woodcuts – an anthology of witty nonsense poems and original woodcuts by Charlotte Cory. An hommage to Robert Louis Stevenson, whose Child’s Garden of Verses is mimicked here (for reasons explained in the Introduction).