It was a hot summer day in the valley.
Me and my brother went to the pond to catch fish,
but it was too hot. We caught no fish, so we decided to go home.
On the way, my brother started us singing
a song Mom loved to sing.
It was too hot, so I stopped singing.
It had been two months since it rained.
On the walk home, we decided to get some jelly to take home
and ask Mom to sing for us.
We got home. Mommy asked, “Where are the fish?”
Sam said, “We got no fish today, but we got jelly.
Mommy, can you please sing for us, Mom, please?”
“Okay. One song. Okay.”
Mom started to sing for us. Everyone was happy.
Look! It’s raining, too.
We love when Mother sings.

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Doran Edwards writes, “I am a surfer from Boston, Jamaica.” He came to the United States in 2019. He studies at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Adult Learning Center, where the site manager is Winsome Pryce-Cortes.