<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-adfdd18c-7fff-445c-755a-56a87748afb9"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Cranes Don’t Fold Themselves</span></p>by Joan Myles</span><div><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">you’ve heard plenty of her squawks and fluffles </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">enough to wake you from good sound dreaming</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">but this morning right there in your kitchen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">she’s checking the eggs for counterfeits</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and if you make the grade she’ll move in</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">as for the colorful stuff</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Boy he’s been hanging around for a long time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">right outside your door since childhood</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">he wonders where you are</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> why you won’t take his calls anymore</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">desperate he bangs all the louder</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">do something he yells through the keyhole </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the crane cocks her head around the fridge dorr </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">nods and strikes a pose</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the door flies open with a rush of fresh air</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and you commence to fold</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>