watching my father
string the soft spots
in deer legs
wrapping them
like vining
ballet slippers
around my calves
a doe twirling
on twine
MICRO
MICRO
watching my father
string the soft spots
in deer legs
wrapping them
like vining
ballet slippers
around my calves
a doe twirling
on twine
MICRO
An orchid grows a petal then grows a limb that becomes a leg / The stem vibrates into a hum / I water it till the hum becomes a song
MICRO
little / octave, I wear silk too
MICRO
Adopted oak tree / Has a mid-life crisis