Girlish Dreams

The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore she adores the breeze adorned with gems emeralds fly from silk strings in the wind kites made of ruby and sapphire and pearl sit on a picnic checkerboard in envy-green grass betting on play-dates with zephyrs —dice cubes roll beady-black-eyes at their folly she chases books as they sail from trees fingers stretch to net helter-skelter hummingbirds she leafs through slices of fruitcake each nutty page a silver frame of insane; crows croon Crosby tunes two baby paisley owls drive a car the car does a hop-scotch down bourbon street field-mouse-flowers meow the moon jumps over the cow …she sings the world needs more bumblebees! a two-masted schooner scries water for its soul the palm of a leaf offers a diamond ring palm trees pull up anchor and hover the sunset she laughs as nuns ride upside-down the roller-coaster rim her dreamcatchers sticky and tricky as spiderwebs as virgins lose the reins of sugar-cookie-colored horses tilling confetti rain and puppet gardens where wild-child wombs and peacock plumes bloom