Neighborhood happenings

Speckled robins egg

Cracked

Kidnapped from its twig and twine

No baby bird inside?

A stain of yellow gloop

Answered my question

In minds memory

Spasms in the crickets legs

Sputtering juices of neon orange cottage cheese

Why isn't the blood red?

Throat raw from my barking cry

I ran it over with my bike!

A misstep for my feet were brand new at maneuvering a two-wheeler

I am a killer!

In minds memory

Hot gritty pavement

Fallen upon-brush burned hands and knees

Fathers ashtray! My hands look like dad's ashtray!

Panic...and embarrassed that the trees were watching

They are all laughing at me!

In minds memory

Men too old to joke with little girls

Man with a bloody white tee

Pump the gas to play a testosterone tune

Wrench for hands

Gargling oil

Stumbled into his arms, planted my face against his beastly chest

The pebbly street conspiracy! Little stones tripped me

Took a long bath to wash off his meat grease

In minds memory

Neighbors pray to the sound of a jukebox garage

Teenagers conglomerate their angst with metal riffs

A call made to my parents "we are studying"

Quiet down, warned the police

In minds memory

Pine needles tangled in my hair, so fine and so soft

Sap, I licked and sniffed, perfume for the delicate puffy white wrist

Pay attention....

the dog wants to bite the back of my knee

Get to the end of the fence!

In minds memory

Home is where there is disparaging remarks

Baked into clumpy peppered-meatloaf

Grandpas jeopardy

A rocking recliner

And cyanosis on hands and feet

A comfort away from all of the neighborhood happenings

In minds memory.