She told you
you could be Barbie
and every little girl
wants
that.
You realize now, you can’t
step outside
this charcoal fog.
You don’t care.
You find it nice.
You decide your coffin
should be balsa & tar
but who cares;
it’s not like we die,
anyways....
Tuesday is my mother's Monday,
and working nights, she'll take me out
for coffee and a drive. We wrap around
the spruce trees in our blue-silver
Honda and know all the baristas
by name. My mother confesses to them
her many concerns. She
is my most pressing concern.
When we are driv...
Every whisper turns to us, every
wondering eye and stillborn
smile. I am a celebrity,
you my escort, my case (and cause)
of d'j' vu. Everything is tiny,
except you, and your too-big
feet, swimming, in steel-toed
boots. I am small at your side,
a young girl, feet pretty and pink
lik...
Shh now, let's pretend we're movie stars
stand in-between the raindrops, arms spread
we should be black-and-white perfection
glorious ' in all your awkward adolescence
shh now,
pretty girl all whispers and sadness,
isn't that better?
Shh now, hold my hand,
-hold still, that's g...