Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Reversible Footstep Chart at Cobb Orchard Press
The chart first shows the final sound order. The friends build it backward: hush, swish, tap—then perform tap, swish, hush. A pulley shadow looks like an open hand only when the chart is turned to its amber side.
Rhyme
Four ways came down from stump-school height.
No line formed in amber light.
At Cobb orchard press, the chart showed three:
hush, swish, tap—what could they be?
Brandon tapped. Kaydence made swish.
Aleea held one finger for hush.
Build it backward. Start with hush.
Then add swish. Then finish with tap.
Now turn it round: tap, swish, hush.
Three small sounds, no need to rush.
At barn loft pulley, shadows spread.
“An open hand,” Kaydence said.
Aydin looked where one shape broke.
He turned the chart toward amber glow.
The hand-shape opened, warm and clear.
Quiet Aydin said, “Make room here.”
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Spoken three-voice sound braid with tap, swish, hush, pointing, and one quiet final line.
Estimated spoken length: About 50 seconds.