A Nest Full of Stars

by JamesBerry (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2003

  $3.25

  'A Nest Full of Stars is a marvellous, warmly humane and richly humourous new collection from James Berry' Achuka

  From A Nest Full of Stars

  Only chance made me come and find

  my hen, stepping from her hidden

  nest, in our kitchen garden.

  In her clever secret place, her tenth

  egg, still warm, had just been dropped.

  Not sure of what to do, I picked up

  every egg, counting them, then put them

  down again. All were mine.

  All swept me away and back.

  I blinked, I saw: a whole hand

  of ripe bananas, nesting.

  I blinked, I saw: an open bagful

  of ripe mangoes, nesting.

  I blinked, I saw:

  a might nest full of stars.