You send me higher power missives I can’t resist a four-year old boy in tight white pajamas w/spaceships ran full speed at me bellowing father begging him to stop he aimed his Super Soaker silver blouse stuck to my skin The forever stamps aren’t lost on me a couple near ninety pulled into the post office to mail a package she waited for him to come to her door noble knight on a day it pained her to walk she beamed at him like it was their first date You inspire me when my powers wane a high school girl in UGG boots & a gray plaid kilt bowed reverently over her desk angelic worshiping a poem about oranges said she’ll never peel one again without smelling sunrays When I journey far away you’re there beside me a teenager in the middle of Bourbon Street spun in circles on his head legs running soles nudging stars jazzed by trumpets blaring around him his upside down gaze stopped at my lips And for the record — your shape shifting is superb this brazen squirrel scurried to me peered in like I were a pond where he longed to dive furry head first warm July breeze shook his silvery tail as his hungry-lightning hands tore my Subway bag Your nonchalant miracles leave me breathless my daughter at three jumped and waved happily from our kitchen window where she saw my grandfather her great weeks after he died smiling at her from our garden where the basil he planted was ready You teach me that patience will always heal me a bone in my foot cracked two clean pieces mended themselves slowly my own steps strengthening the bond like Gorilla Glue fixes broken porcelain dries undetectable makes things new again My devotion should be clear to you by now my best friend texts wondering where I’ve been hiding myself these honeysuckle nights the city’s music lifts romantics to rooftops to sip cocktails but you and I are home lyrics pulsing in my fingers I live to tell the world your curves and lines are mine
Dana Kinsey is an actor and teacher published in Writers Resist, Drunk Monkeys, ONE ART, On the Seawall, Porcupine Literary, Sledgehammer Lit, West Trestle Review, and Prose Online. Dana’s play, WaterRise, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Her chapbook, Mixtape Venus, is published by I. Giraffe Press. Visit wordsbyDK.com
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