The Wide Dirt Road
by Franklin (2nd grade)
so much depends
upon
a wide dirt
road
covered with sand
and gravel,
lined with
wooden sticks,
and carrying
farm delivery trucks
away to the
city.
2015
To Write is to Live
PS 153 Manhattan
Edited by Noemí Martínez Cress, writer‐in‐residence
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