A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug,
fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.
In the ending lines of "Minetta Speaks," Booker conjures the myth of enslaved Africans flying home across the Atlantic, famously invoked by Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, as well as Robert Hayden's poem, "O Daedalus,
Fly Away Home." Booker writes:
Containing two novellas, Walking East and
Fly Away Home, the book hinges on character decisions.
Fly Away Home (1996, PG) Alden, 13, hatches some baby geese, and she must teach them to migrate as they grow older.
The Carle illustrations grace three rhymes, including Ladybird, ladybird,/
Fly away home.
Although a very expensive writingdirecting debut for Crowe's A Beautiful Mind producer Akiva Goldsman, it has a score co-written by Hans Zimmer and some stunning cinematography by Caleb Deschanel (
Fly Away Home), there's much to admire here among the wreckage.
Schad responded: ''Well, after 34 years, I'm free to
fly away home. Thank you, warden.
Where appropriate there are large white, open spaces for bees to swarm and ladybirds to
fly away home. Here is a 'find' for lovers of words, of literary imagery and devotees of great art.
Ladybug,
fly away home. I felt a ladybug under my chin, under my chin, under my chin.
In Oregon, those women's communities included Cabbage Land (originally a mixed-gender community), Fishpond, OWL, Rainbow's Other End, Rootworks,
Fly Away Home, WomanShare, Rainbow's End, Steppingwoods and We' Moon Healing Ground.