Legacy

[notlikestarfish]

I know how to disappear.
I learned it from my mother
who learned it from her mother
and my great grandmother
who went poof! one night
right in the middle of dinner.
After that, my grandmother went,
in between white sheets hanging
on a line in the yard, poof!
Then my mother as she held me
in the hospital, leaving me squirming
on her flattened gown. Even

Comments

[yarnforhair]

this is beautiful.

[notlikestarfish]

Thank you. It's new : )

[xvaleriex]

You're amazing!

[notlikestarfish]

: ) I have a reading coming up, so I'm trying to write a bunch of new ones. Thanks!