I collect the ingredients to make a fine valentines box
lacy white paper doilies, silver gummy stars, vintage valentines
a crisp new Sketchers Box in pristine shape
Elmer’s glue, a stapler, markers and glitter
Let’s make your valentines box, I say to my granddaughter
She is nine; she shows me that she has a virtual box
Her classmates send her electronic valentines
“it’s the way we do it now, grandma”.
I am horrified.
I really want to make a vintage valentines day box.
She agrees, and we make it together.
She is kind, and pretends she will use it someday.
To satisfy her grandma.
Categories:
sketchers, granddaughter,
Form: Free verse
Let’s make art deco Halloween costumes this year, she said.
What are they? I asked. I do not like spending a lot of extra time.
Do a little research, she suggested. You’ll figure it out.
The easiest costume I saw was probably for a flapper.
I put fringe around the bottom of a short straight nightie.
Fashioned a headdress out of a piece of dog leash braid.
I felt like Julie Andrews in the movie Thoroughly Modern Millie
Except she probably had not worn Sketchers, but what the heck.
Categories:
sketchers, halloween,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sickness fueled my hallucinatory
Visions of Dorothy in red sketchers
The Tin Man had a heart that beat
So loud it was like a marching band
And the Scarecrow with his IQ became
President of the United States
Yes I found Oz. The Lions' courage
Was unmatched to any competitor and
He led soldiers to battle again and again
"Aunty Em" where not in Kansas anymore.
The Flying Monkeys are running the Congress
And the House of Representatives. And Glenda
The Good Witch is the Secretary of State.
Dorothy just wants to go home with Toto.
But tapping those red sketchers together does
Not seem to do the trick. And The Great Oz
In all his glory is somewhere in the whitehouse
Behind a dark curtain. Practicing his mumbo
Jumbo. Yes I found Oz.
Categories:
sketchers, imagination,
Form: Bio