‘Choral Reading Information from this handout was taken from: Fleischman, P. (1988). Joyful noise: Poems for two voices. New York: Harper & Row. “Note: The following [roem was] written to be read aloud by two readers at once, one teking the left-hand part, the other taking the right-hand part. The poems should be read from tep to bottom, the two parts meshing as in @ musical duet. When both readers have lines at the same horizontal level, those lines are to be spoken simultaneously” (Fleischman, 1988). House Crickets We don't live in meadows crick-et crick-et or ingroves We're house crickets living beneath this gas stove crick-et crck-et Others may worry crick-et crick-et about fall We're scarcely aware of the seasons at all cricket crick-et ‘Spring, to house crickets, cricket erick-et ‘means no more ‘than the time. when fresh greens ‘once again grace the floor crick-et cricket for pie crumbs:peach, pear, boysenberry, quince, apricot, plum crick-et crick-et Pumpkin seeds tell us crick-et cricket Fall's arrived While hot chocolate spills Hint that it's Winter outside. No matter the month No matter the month, we stay well fed and warm, unconcerned about cold fronts ‘ond will chill and storms, For while others are ruled For while others are ruled by the sun in the Feavens, whose varying height brings the secsons' procession, we live ina world we live in a world of fixed Fahrenheit crick-et crick-et thanks to oureun: our unchanging reliable steadfast and stable bright blue bright blue pilot light. pilot light.