Saturday, May 9, 2009

Creation Story

In the long ago of far away,
you'd read me stories
about Shingebiss and the Little Mermaid,
quoted poetry in between putting up pots
of Maxwell House coffee on the stove,
fed me peanut butter and jelly from the jar,
stuffed cabbage by the roll,
taught me to be true to myself,
the wild one who peed in the lot
straining sandstone on rusted screens,
a girl just like you, your Frankenstein,
who walked on a public beach
plastered with dead jelly fish.

Later, I cried out for you
to turn me back
into your real daughter
to braid my pig-tails
beneath a white birch tree,
to tie off the scorched ends.

Then I would sit in your lap
and listen to you talk
about the weather, the sky,
how we were going swimming
that afternoon, I would
smell lilacs
between your breasts,
and before a lid of clouds
covered the sun,
I leaned toward you
and it was quiet.

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