Snap The Whip

August 2021

Snap the Whip

Winslow Homer (1872)

You know the game: ever ybody r uns hard as they can, holding hands, and then the boy on the near end suddenly stops, sets his feet hard against the ground, and the others swing, like a gate made of children, swinging faster the far ther out, fighting centr if ugal force now to keep f rom being flung away, flung out of the sudden circle this line of children has become a radius of, and those far thest out have to hang on for dear life. W hat saves them is how tight they and their f r iends can hold on, and for how long. T he far thest f rom the center need the strongest f r iends. — Millard Dunn Millard Dunn is the author of Places We Could Never Find A lone.