My husband’s pride is
African violets, purple
faces genuflect.
Majesty
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My husband’s pride is
African violets, purple
faces genuflect.
7am could
be midnight. Kids stand on street
corners like hookers.
I answer the door.
Offer kids cooked broccoli
They demand candy.
Moving furniture,
the Bermuda Triangle
is under the couch.
Only buy the good
candy because you have to
live with leftovers.
My daughter channel
surfs, feeding her ‘Scrubs’ habit.
I’m no Superman.
No pumpkins any
where, except for Wal-mart which
wants ten bucks a pop.
We have never met.
And yet, reading this, you know
who I really am.
I crave silence like
most women crave chocolate,
dark, deep, bittersweet.
Wearing the mantle
of autumn. Cold starry nights
days of leaf-strewn gold.