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Squatting, naked again,
penis a small question mark aimed at damp tile, you fix me with my own eyes. You have plans. What do you need? Something to powerize this sea-bus-train.
Beyond the
abandoned bath towel your appealing apparatus waits. Somebody's shoelaces bind a painted ferry boat and varnished ark:
blocks, carved animals and one yellow, plastic duck teeter aboard. I think those car keys are mine.
Power,eh?
I pull up your jogging pants and make you an offer from my private reserve: unpolished stones, real feathers, a pottery
hen. Pulling off the pants you slowly shake your head. You require a steel potato masher, plastic ice cream scoops,and
my best heat resistant spatula. It's to shoosh
up this difter. Also, a lunch bonx AND two kinda tape.
At barely one you riffled my wallet and came
to me bearing dollar bills and plastic cards. What have you there? Baksheesh, you said. At two my stones
were treasure. You named them: Heart, green and cool: Mars, the fist filler: all speckled pebbles, Poppy-seed. Now,
almost four, you have outgrown my symbols: you take what you need.
This assortment of vacuum cleaner attachments, for
instance, and Grumpa's umber-bella. They are important in your construction. At last I get your head into a sweat shirt.
Tell me about this. This is where we're going
where my fodder is. And I will have a fodder AND a cat. This is all around the world where we are going, see. It's
raining.
~by Penny Gerking
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Penny Gerking moved from her profession
as registered nurse to writing, editing and teaching some years ago. Her work has appeared in print and on-line journals,
and she is working on a young adult fantasy novel. She holds additional degrees in Philosophy and an MFA from the University
of Washington Creative Writing Program.
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