The Vicissitudes: WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN

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Published in Coming Up Hot a few years ago....my own work "Kayla":

She
laughs all over - with her crooked
teeth
peeking out, grains of white sand
floating
over an ocean of saliva mixed
with the
day's sampling of life: moths,
cobwebs,
carrots, a clump of chicken meat.

Her eyes
glow when she laughs too;
flicker
when she cries. I will them not to
in my
mind. I say, just be ordinary,
please.
For sanity's sake. Don't
be
arresting; for these diamonds in your
face,
will chain you to the omnipotence
of love.
You will become a strange beast -
the light
that once dazzled your lover
will only
leave him terrified
of his
desire for you.

She
dances for me and I dance for her.
We listen
to sad American music and hum together,
a gnarled
smile and a fresh, untainted,
happy
one. My niece, my heart.

When I
leave for work each morning,
I bid
her, give Auntie a hug.
She
flings her little arms around my neck.
My days
begin with this mutual devotion;
what I
have always wanted from a man -
what
my little bab licks my wounds with.

The Vicissitudes

Saturday, August 20, 2011

WHEN, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN

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