"in just-"

The title's hyphen and lack of capital letters are clues that the poet is e. e. cummings. In just a few words, he describes how joyful the rainy season of spring is for young children.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 12 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: My Papa's Waltz, in just-, The Last Word, Mushrooms, I Remember, Invisible Man, Four Skinny Trees, Dirty Work, On Seeing England for the First Time, Speaking with Hands, The White Man's Burden, The Poor Man's Burden, Shooting an Elephant, Lindo Jong: Double Face, Stranger in the Village
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  1. luscious
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
    in just-
    spring when the world is mud-
    luscious
  2. lame
    disabled in the feet or legs
    the little
    lame balloonman
  3. whistle
    give a signal by making a sharp sound
    whistles far and wee
  4. marbles
    a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
    and eddieandbill come
    running from marbles and
  5. piracy
    hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts
    piracies and it's
    spring
  6. wonderful
    extraordinarily good or great
    when the world is puddle-wonderful
  7. queer
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
    the queer
    old balloonman whistles
    far and wee
  8. hopscotch
    a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
    and bettyandisabel come dancing
    from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
    it's
    spring
  9. goat
    any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
    and
    the
    goat-footed
    balloon Man
  10. wee
    a short time
    whistles
    far
    and
    wee
Created on Tue Mar 03 15:36:38 EST 2015 (updated Wed Mar 04 20:25:32 EST 2015)

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