Getting Used to the Dark 26 Night Poems Author:Susan Marie Swanson The mysteries, surprises, and delights of the night are here celebrated in evocative style and variety. The poems are ideal for reading aloud, and for encouraging children to see into the dark newly for themselves--perhaps in poems of their own making. Here is Joanie, ice-skating at night and imagining herself as a robber girl with a sooty cape.... more » Here is Ben under the blankets, a bee in a honeycomb/ a jigsaw piece fitting in. The child in one poem says the at the headlight of passing cars hit my bedroom wall/ like big strokes of paint/ that disappear. Another dreams back into the past: I wanted to say hello/ to the people building the beginning/ of our town./ I wanted to help them./ When the sun got low,/ I wanted to give them a flashlight,/ but in my dream/ flashlights hadn't been invented yet.« less