Showing posts with label fatherhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fatherhood. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2011

Approaching the Intersection of Fife and 12th

I dreamed I was riding a unicycle
barely staying up
I swished the wheel side to side, twisting my body

It was hard to balance
and match my husband's pace
walking beside me
Plus
we were going up hill

***

I held my daughter's hand
as we walked to her day care the next morning

She called out to the pumpkins on doorsteps
And I saw a man on a unicycle
Cross our path
Effortlessly gliding downhill

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Peanut Butter in the Toaster

Why'd you have to go explore the toaster
What a way to burn the peanut butter
Stay outta there
Stay outta there

Why'd you go to paint your eyelids
With the black and blue bruises
Stay outta there
Stay outta there

I have no answer to your questions
I can't respond to your fit
Why'd I go
You told me not to.
That's all
that's it.

I close this room to you
Forbidden Kitchen
Forbidden
Do you hear
Stay outta there