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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Storyworks magazine

In Scholastic's Storyworks magazine
my illustration for this powerfully evocative poem 

Early Explorers
by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Susan Swan

No place on earth
                is ever undiscovered
Even in Antarctica
                where whole mountains are hidden
                                under ice
penguins already laid shambling tracks
                                in the snow
                before we traveled there
The hottest desert
                                the deepest jungle
                where none of us have ever been
all have been crossed
                                and crossed again
                by wings whirring or silent
                                feet furred or scaled
                                                hoofed or bare
By adventurers we will never know
                explorers who will never tell us
                                what wonders they have seen