Prune People? Raisin Kids? Water protects us

August 11, 2015

This mummy is adorned with cartonnage, layers of linen and plaster. Walters Art Museum [Public domain, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

This unknown woman mummy is adorned with cartonnage, layers of linen and plaster. Walters Art Museum [Public domain, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

The water inside you is salty, like ocean water.

And if this water dries up, what a life-less prune-person, raisin-kid, mummy-man you would become!

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Nancy Bo Flood

As a fish-brain surgeon or a rodeo poem wrangler, I have loved stories. I strongly believe that words – in poetry or prose – help heal our hearts and give us new eyes to see the world. I was first a research psychologist studying brain development at the University of Minnesota and London University before following my passion – writing for children. Learn more...