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What Hat Do You Wear?

Ann Malaspina BioCVR 2022 Jul
    Born in Brooklyn NY, Ann Malaspina is a children's author and poet who often writes about social justice. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA verse novel KIKI IN THE MIDDLE is coming out in 2022. 
 
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Ann Malaspina mentioned in her submission email, ''I am a children's author and poet, and this poem is for children.'  (...children of all ages, we'd say - Editor)
  
 

 

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What Hat Do You Wear?

     
 
Ann Malaspina BioCVR 2022 Jul
Cover Photo:

Aretha Franklin singing
“My Country Tis of Thee”
at Barack Obama’s
first presidential inauguration
at the U.S. Capitol
on January 20, 2009

 

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What hat do you wear
To travel to Washington?
 

           An elegant beret
           For the special occasion.

 

What hat do you wear
To meet the new president?

           Made of wool felt
           For the winds of January.

 

What hat do you wear
To stand at the Capitol?

          With a big silver bow
          To welcome the people.


What hat do you wear
To sing “My Country Tis of Thee?”
 

          In a soft shade of gray
          For the solemn moment.

 

What hat do you wear
To celebrate hope?

          Shining with sequins
          To light up tomorrow.

I wear a magnificent hat.
I am the Queen of Soul.

 

Ann Malaspina © 2022

 
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