Posts
-
As good
Does the bird nest in the curve of the 's"
Of the bright red Marshalls Home Goods billboard
And think
This is as good as my tree
Does the black bear climb the telephone pole -
In which I forgive him and the world keeps spinning
I am told he is sorry for yelling
First in time alone, then in trips to get frozen yogurt and movie tickets, and finally in whispered words
I forgive him and the world keeps spinning -
Violet, petunia, dahlia
In biology, my classmate asks me why I don't grow flowers in my garden plot
I point out that he also doesn't grow flowers, that his potatoes have yet to unwrinkle, unfurl
He says that someone should grow flowers -
Measuring my daughter
I will not birth my daughter onto a scale
She will not be measured in pounds or ounces
My stomach will not deflate by inches or shirt sizes -
When this woman laughs
I don't apologize for my cackle
When it slips out from between my rosy cracked lips and sunburnt cheeks and what she called "striking" nose -
I hear it
I hear it in the static of phonographs
Crooning with the sultry sound of vinyl-scratched breath
I hear it in bassinets with mothball melodies that soothe stray cats to sleep