The top sketch illustrating the topic PLAY gave birth to the one below it. Please excuse the Thurberesque faintness of the pencil lines. The inking doesn't happen until the picture is really ready. The idea of the world as a underlying thread between the poems came to me as the sheets of verse lay scattered in confusion all over my kitchen table. WHY poetry? Why not? It's as easy as breathing when you let your child's mind run fancy free.