The Slow-Cooked Sentence is focusing on my family’s summer vacation on the East Coast for the next three Wednesdays, and today features a guest post by my daughter, Chaja.
Photos by Dance in the Kitchen.
Thirty Things to Love about New Jersey
By Chaja Levy
By Chaja Levy
- Sandy beaches
- Cousins
- Low tide
- Avalon Freeze
- Smooth rocks
- Shells
- Sandcastles
- Boogie boards
- Bathing suits
- Jersey corn
- Miniature golfing
- Family
- Rafts
- Bay
- Marsh
- Birds
- Sand in my bed
- Eight-seater bike
- Board walk
- Carmen’s Seafood Restaurant
- Carnival
- Carousel
- Salty
- Red eyes
- Crab traps
- Fishing
- Catching a sand shark
- “Minnies” (minnows used for bait)
- Flounder
- Waves
And the list inspired her to write this cinquain:
Hitchhikers
By Chaja Levy
By Chaja Levy
Waiting
there for the tide
to wash them out to sea,
clams close their shells tight and stick out
their thumbs.
Very cool Chaja!! What a long list. It must have been a great trip. I would like to hear the story about the sand shark!! A great poem too.
I like your poem Chaja.