Academic journal article English Journal
As It Turns Out
Article excerpt
When I ask a group of very young people-
who are back outside now under the sky
re-creating the weather in their
new-glazed imaginations-
"What depends upon 'a red wheel
barrow glazed with rain water beside
the white chickens'?" and
after we have all enjoyed the moment of
quivery silence we had all apprehended,
I like to ask
"What is the weather like? Describe the sky.'
And they argue among themselves:
"It's raining." "It's cloudy."
"No. The sun is out."
"How do you know?"
"Because of 'glazed'."
"Then it's sunny! "
"But then the wheel
barrow would be dry."
"The clouds are going away! "
So they go away and go look at the blue
sky with a gray horizon
and the green grass
and the white house and the red
barn and the brown road that
they walk on until they can turn
around and see the rest of
the painting. …