Aileen Fisher

Poet Aileen Fisher was born in the town of Iron River, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Her mother, a former kindergarten teacher, instilled in her a love of poetry, and Fisher went on to be educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri, where she earned a BA in journalism. After graduation she moved to Chicago, working in a placement bureau for women journalists and later as the director of the Women’s National Journalistic Register. In 1932 she moved with Olive Rabe to a 200-acre ranch in Colorado, where they lived off the grid, in the rural landscape that Fisher loved, for more than 30 years. Fisher’s poems for children are suffused with curiosity and love for the workings of the natural world. Source

Little Talk

Don't you think it's probable

that beetles, bugs, and bees

talk about a lot of things -

you know, such things as these:

The kind of weather where they live

in jungles tall with grass,

and earthquakes in their villages

whenever people pass.

Of course, we'll never know if bugs

talk very much at all -

because our rears are far too big

for talk that is so small.

Published:

None

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Children's

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Body & Body Image

Nature