Laura's Poem

We were thrilled yesterday to receive from my brother, Allan Jones, a link to the Texas Standard Podcast which contains an audio clip of his granddaughter and my grandniece, almost-ten-year-old Laura McElhany, reading her poem, "Texas."  Texas Standard is collecting poems about Texas from listeners as a culmination to National Poetry Month.  Laura and her mother were listening to the podcast, and Laura told her mother that she was going to submit a poem.  (There was apparently a link on the podcast that allowed one to record directly on the website.)  Laura's mother thought nothing more about it until yesterday when she was driving along the freeway listening to the podcast and heard her daughter's voice.  Talk about a surprise!  Here is the link to the recording:

Texas Standard for April 28, 2022 | Texas Standard

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-standard-for-april-28-2022/

Laura's poem can be heard at minute 15 of the podcast.  Her copy of the poem is below, but you really need to listen to the recording to get the full effect.

 Congratulations, Laura, we love your poem and we're very proud of you.