Tag Archives: Zoe

ze ze ze zikumi za

zoe sings a kenyan folk song: ze ze ze zikumi za but she doesn’t know the spelling, or what the words mean; just loves the z’s in swahili echoing her name and tells me in soccer she scored a goal for the other team … Continue reading

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oil pastels and charcoal

her doodled marker and crayon people hopscotch on empty notebook pages what will she do with these grownup tools I bring her?

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