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frost frost frostwinter vegetables are growing wild in the backyardfrost frost frost
and I don't really mind.
I just wish you
would smile again,
because things were so nice
when you
tended the garden and made dinner and promised us that the roof
would get fixed in a month, tops.
I don't know what that man with the long coat said to make you cry, but I'm
scared, and momma, I'm just tired of fighting with everyone because of dirty clothes and words
and the way you smoke
even in the


denizenevery day at four, momma has a therapydenizen
session and I get dropped off at the park.
sometimes, I talk to
people and
they smile 'cause the birds and dogs and
plants
aren't great company.
once, a man with a briefcase sat down on a bench for two hours.
I kind of hope he was waiting for someone.
I tried to tell momma
about the man, but
she just shooed me out and told me to go away, she was busy
and besides, no one really cares what
child


SonnyNinety-cent cameras click and the family smiles, grinding out one syllable, long 'e.'Sonny
Sonny pretends
the railing is her tightrope, arms stretched wide, laughing.
Momma
snatches her away from danger, chastising the dream gently,
"Don't be silly, darling. Little girls can't fly."
Thirty-two years old, and Sonny's an eighth grade teacher in Arizona, married to a lawyer named Jack.
She went to see the grand canyon last week. It made her feel like a cockroach, hardy and worthless.
She traces th


on thievesthere's anon thieves
oil-slick on your back, you cave
and whimper
"stop please"
next day, you come to school with a book cradled by your locker
walls.
there are moths in the room and you
don't look up.
he giggles like a ten-year-old secret and you find a condom taped to your workbook.
obcenities
in permanent
ink.
there's a birch on the front lawn. it's just
a littl
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