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4/12/13

Pantoum for my 5 year old.


Stories bloom like primroses in her mind
sometimes the design arrives too fast to speak
she sings and paints and dances it all to life
disregarding the weight of watching eyes

Sometimes the design arrives too fast to speak
she stutters and crinkles a frustrated brow
disregarding the weight of watching eyes
she collapses in on herself like a neutron star

She stutters and crinkles a frustrated brow
her inner siren begins its wailing cry
she collapses in on herself like a neutron star
tears and knots and knees and clay

Her inner siren begins it's wailing cry
she sings and paints and dances it all to life
tears and knees and knots and clay
stories bloom like primroses in her mind.