Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Shadow Cut Garden Marker at Reed Dock Inlet
The marker first invites a chalk trace, but the wet surface makes no useful sound. The friends keep that idea as a check: trace only where the surface is dry. Then wood, metal, and cloth supply the three gentle sounds.
Rhyme
Reed-dock inlet held the start.
Silver light crossed every part.
Chalk traced round, but made no tone.
Wet ground whispered, “Dry spot only.”
Alice tapped wood: tok, soft and low.
Callen touched metal: ting—then slow.
Aleea brushed cloth: shh, light as air.
Baby Bentley listened, safely there.
Round went tok. Line went ting.
Curve went shh like a tiny wing.
Frog pond rim stayed in the marker view.
Creek pebble shelf became the way through.
Cleanup came: stack, set, fold.
Three small sounds made helping feel whole.
Baby Bentley looked. The cloth lay neat.
Putting things away became the treat.
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Caregiver-spoken shape-tracing lap rhyme with one wooden tap, one metal ting, one cloth hush, and slow shared looking.
Estimated spoken length: About 35 seconds.