I love the glitter in your eyes
musings of a child
manners abandoned
because you're safe here
Sorry I didn't break a bigger piece
I thought at least
I'd see you again
God did decide
that you'd be free
So you came to me
Eyebrows raised
Marked with the stain of the misbehaved
I was imperfect
Impatient at your rights
but no matter
It's your time, not mine
Her force ends course
Your words and their worth
hold onto gravity
You've grabbed hold of me
Know that it matters
And it matters to me
Your choice
A shaken voice
now on repeat
I love the glitter in your eyes
Ravaged Flesh
Marred by the colors of death
Locked doors and sweat
Life hasn't been beautiful yet
but you jump and play
because all you had to say is,
"I'm scared to go home"
Sweet sweet baby
A coat of light brown and a heart of thread,
Waiting for me on the edge of the bed.
So soft and squishy, a pillowy prize,
With quiet patience and brown button eyes.
With a black little nose and a bright red tongue,
To your comforting spirit, I’ve always clung.
I hold you close when the world feels loud,
Or wrap you in blankets like a terry cloud.
I hug you tight till the worries depart,
And feel your stuffing against my heart.
Sometimes I’m angry and toss you aside,
But Cushy, you never once leave or hide.
I smile at your face when the morning is new,
Finding a comfort that’s honest and true.
I share every secret, my thoughts and my fears,
While you soak up the laughter and dry all my tears.
From your fuzzy ears to your small scrubby tail,
A friendship with you will never pale.
When the day is finally done and it’s right,
I tuck you in with me for the night.
Under the covers, a snug little team,
Floating together through every dream.
Keep us cozy, warm till sun’s light,
My best friend Cushy throughout the night.
The restraints of school can feel like jail,
there’s a mundanity to it.
I must plan my week’s every minute,
like God must have arranged atoms.
It’s the art of the small things,
where some minutes seem shorter than others
like atoms making different things
School is vibrant, intellectually stimulating
and stuffed, like a turkey, with a catalogue of
specific ideas that are new to me.
So I study them until, like an actor, I can recite them
as if on stage. But if a quiz is going to be ‘open notes,’
then it’s going to be an exacting b1tch .
And then there’s the waiting for outcomes (grades)
But I’m one of those girls
who sings shower songs
so bring it on.
.
.
A song for this:
Teddy Jam by guy
As she lays tucked in her white crib,
she hugs her brown monkey.
Other animals fill her crib,
but she chooses the brown monkey.
Why one may ask?
even as a baby she has a choice to make.
As the years go by she wants her brown monkey,
for love and peace no other animal will do.
The years pass by as she grows up,
with every move her brown monkey will follow.
Now grown,
she looks at this bedraggled stuffed animal.
Her heart is filled with love for her brown monkey,
he was much more than a soft toy.
We had loads of fun,
Once were young in the sun,
So perfect, man,
In his own scan,
Chick overthinking,
All this overthining,
Really, can be read,
Stuffed why we got wed!
The Easter Bunny brought me a basket filled with candy
Can I find many pretty colorful eggs
Everyone wants a stuffed bunny and that will be very dandy
Daddy and Mommy I fell and skinned my legs
Let everyone drink but I am way too young for brandy
Better watch out I am too young to drink and will see the feds.
My stuffed apple, he can sing
He can sing
He can sing
My stuffed apple, he can sing
Sing, sing, sing
My stuffed apple, he can hug
He can hug
He can hug
My stuffed apple, he can hug
Hug, hug, hug
My stuffed apple, came to life
Came to life
Came to life
My stuffed apple, came to life
Not once but twice
Stuffed heads on imposing walls
beady glass eyes, glare.
The house is stuffed with horns,
tusks, fangs, and jowls.
Many a taxidermic glower,
gazes down,
with a moth-farmed visage.
Slaughtered beast
hang heavily from high mounts.
Teddy Roosevelt’s elephant gun
leans against a hollow elephant foot.
On gaslit nights
light gleams upon eyeless tigers.
He ‘bagged’ them all - a manly trait,
(historical context is everything),
truly, great men often display,
their overstuffed ego’s.
Later, Teddy Bears make amends,
as best they can.
Often, It is said,
that these wood-paneled veneers’
echo yet, with the lion's roar,
the panthers rage,
and the rhino's blind charge –
their spirits lunging once more,
toward their now, out-of-date
fate.
A fat tiger sat beside her;
it settled down, began to purr
The girl, Anita, said, “Oh My.”
quietly, trying not to cry.
“You want to eat me up”? She said
“put your big teeth around my head?”
To her surprise, the tiger spoke
“not just now,” he said, half in joke.
“Why not?” She asked, rather meekly
“‘cause I only eat once weekly.”
Eggplant stuffed mama sporting a big dress
With two twin rams – lettuce and watercress
Marched into the fray and demanded to be heard.
Some of the thinner women yelled “my word!”
I pretended that eggplant mama was as thin as me
Which is not so thin now that I am two hundred and three
But there is a difference for she is an eggplant, and I am a hog.
The rams were immediately chased downhill by an old farm dog.
Stuffed heads on stuffed walls
beady glass eyes glare.
The house is stuffed with horns,
tusks, fangs, and jowls.
The heads are taxidermized;
constantly maintained by moths.
The walls are filled with the mummified flesh,
not of slaughtered animals
but the bodies of Dead Presidents.
Teddy Roosevelt’s
elephant gun leans against a hollow elephant foot.
He baggad them all.
It was not considered a disgrace at the time
historical context is everything.
Years later Teddy Bears make amends
as best they can.
I used to eat 'til I was stuffed
never knew when I'd had enough
Some folks called me roly-poly
others found me gruff
Now I'm satisfied with just a little
which does wonders for my middle
And did I mention my transformation
from hostile to hospitable
Shelly called grandma to furiously complain
I cannot get them to dance, she said with disdain.
Are they not minding you at all? Grandma asked her.
They aren’t even walking, I am pretty sure.
They have to want to dance and perform grandma said.
Maybe they need a nap. Did you put them to bed?
They’ve been on the bed all day, Shelly reported.
But she was happier now, feeling duly supported.
I do not know who was more stuffed –
the turkey or me,
I need a nap, and I can’t be bothered
with decorating a tree.
Written November 24, 2022
This sad world is stuffed full of heaven.
Heaven seeps out of every pore of life,
and the dwellers in heaven hardly notice.
Very bad things happen in heaven,
poisonous snakes are in the holy temple
for a purpose, they simply ask us to see
the heaven around us more clearly,
but we are all secretly in love with suffering
and we have painted an evil mask
on revealing angels, made death into a sin
and living into a bad dream -
for most it is.
However, look around,
choose on seeing only the good,
then even the bad will turn to good.
Soon, to your astonishment, you will find
that this sad world is stuffed with heaven.
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