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Quiz:

Read the following two poems, "Woman Work" is on the left, and "Daily" is on the right.

Woman Work

I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own. 


     - Maya Angelou

Daily 

These shriveled seeds we plant,
corn kernel, dried bean,
poke into loosened soil,
cover over with measured fingertips 

These T-shirts we fold into
perfect white squares 

These tortillas we slice and fry to crisp strips
This rich egg scrambled in a gray clay bowl 

This bed whose covers I straighten
smoothing edges till blue quilt fits brown blanket
and nothing hangs out 

This envelope I address
so the name balances like a cloud
in the center of sky 

This page I type and retype
This table I dust till the scarred wood shines
This bundle of clothes I wash and hang and wash again
like flags we share, a country so close
no one needs to name it 

The days are nouns:  touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world 
 
     - Naomi Shihab Nye