When Margaret was five her family moved to a house on Long Island Margaret hitched the neighbors dogs to her sled and raced over the snow Only Margaret would think of that her family said
Under hazy stars Margaret spun stories on the sleeping porch When she read fairy tales to her sister she changed the words sometimes scarier sometimes more magical like a genie spiraling from Aladdin’s lamp
TAXI POUGHKEEPSIE 100 MILES At college in Virginia Margaret once carried a rabbit in a basket onto a train Another time she hired a taxi to drive her to Poughkeepsie New York Six hundred miles in a cab Only Margaret would do that her classmates said
