Childhood Lament
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A Silver Dollar is an aquarium fish.
attracted to her fingers
and slippery as an eel
its one dead eye stares at her
— the silver dollar
lonely child spoons dirt over
the sandwich bag zippered shut
there’s naught burial at sea
— two sticks form a cross
10/13/2018
Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2018
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