RAINBOWS
IN RAINBOWS
tiny grey-haired lady on the sidewalk
many officers + firemen in shorts pace
ragtag bag splayed there is an oxygen
mask placed haphazardly on her face
she is well into her 80’s
as a child she believed in rainbows +
paul bunyan so how did she end up here?
shouting: hard hat hard boots what else you
got that’s hard? once married in leafy suburb
husband left her with 3 kids for best friend +had
4 more
worked at a bakery married a card shark named
Harry a niceguy who wore white undershirts +
brylcreem it’s about to pour 1st responders packing
up Spring exploding everywhere lilac laden trees in
hipster-ridden park give off a bovine scent mixed now
with earth +regret +loathing
Her children stopped looking in 2002 will you take her
home with you?
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Spring 2015
