Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Windowed Question Drum at Frog Pond Rim
The drum performs four jobs: window, test board, tap cue, and direction holder. Brandon remembers a near turn; Aydin remembers a wide turn. The miniature test shows that near protects one sprout while wide leaves passing room.
Rhyme
Two ways met by lantern porch.
No line formed along the walk.
At frog pond rim, the window showed
two tiny turns on the question drum.
Job one: window. Job two: test.
Brandon set “near.” Aydin set “wide.”
Near kept one sprout safe and clear.
Wide left room for passing near.
Job three: tap cue, soft and small.
Job four: hold directions for all.
Before clover gate, they turned away.
Lillian said, “Both clues can stay.”
Look, wait, leave room—one, two, three.
Zylar held the open beat for me:
Look, wait, leave room, then—
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Spoken one-object-many-jobs rhyme with tiny-piece placement, pointing, pausing, and one silent beat.
Estimated spoken length: About 50 seconds.