Friday, March 2nd, 2007...1:03 pm

If I Had a Million Onions by Sheree Fitch

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Here is a small book of poems that everyone should read. Sheree Fitch is a lover of words and word play – alliteration, rhythm, rhyme, onomatopoeia. Her poems are at times playful, at times evocative, at times thought provoking.
The opera-singing dinosaur of Argentinosaurus reminds one of Evita Peron and the Three Tenors. Beggs and Acon will truly tist your twongue. If Only I Could Find the Words plays on how words can sound so similar and yet have meanings that are so different.
As a lover of books and libraries, I particularly enjoyed One Blizzardous Nightstorm which is a epic story about “a traveller bravalliant” who races through a snowstorm to get his books back to the library and through the book returns slot before they become overdue. Do Your Best Under the Circumstances lovingly admonishes,
There is no suit of armour, child.
There’s arrows and there’s pain.
But when your heart is broken, child
Stay strong and love again.
The final poem, A Prayer, is a wish for all that is good and simple.
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