HMH Books for Young Readers

I dream of deep-sea

fishing: awake to find dog

breathing in my face.

For Vita and
for all the Roses in this world,
who are brave, who are warriors,
and who persevere,

My father says Walt Whitman never made a dime, which is not true. I looked it up. Not on Wikipedia but in a book that also said Walt used to write reviews for Leaves of Grass—his own book!—under fake names.