Thousand Pieces of Puzzle Present
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After Stephanie Deshpande's Assembling the Pieces
Don't find contemporary free rhyme as a choice of forms--interior rhymes for me are
leg, egg, edge, nutmeg, wile, pile, idle, while, 'est words
We don’t so much as beg, “Mom can I?” no, just stand idle, lean on one leg,
pick up and set down pieces with the care of an egg the quietest
until we know it fits into the slowly growing frame,
and sneak , click it in, every once in a while
or we seek out edges, set them in a pile
sort by color and sort by texture
until “would you please bring me?” from a parent sends us off
after we bring mugs of Tom & Jerry’s with a dash of nutmeg, or plates of cookies
back the fastest
we find a reason to sit, no one says anything
this is our one large family present, one thousand pieces spread across our table
we are entitled such are our wiles
unnoticed we fit in to the family picture, puzzle hour after hour until the day
or hour or errand came and we steal away and see who could hold
out longest
hiding the piece that fits into the thousand pieces last
or is forever
lost
Copyright © Sheri Fresonke Harper | Year Posted 2014
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