Melt With You-Modern English

Mariana
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Looking Back
-Entry #2

SUNSHINE

Screams through my window
with the morning alarm
calling my name

Down for the count
Tang and cereal
I wake my mother
who is asleep on the couch
...since the night before
My first day of school



5:30 DINNER BELL

My mom cries
over a pan of burnt pork chops
near a hole punched into
the kitchen wall

I try to
-embrace her
but she can't see me
through her broken glasses

and she grabs a glass of wine
instead


THE GUARANTEE

After school
I get to go to my friend
Mary's

I have
my happy face packed

I'm not mad that
I don't get to see the
...moving truck

I have been
guaranteed that
things will
be
better
in this
new
house


SHADOWPLAY

On a sunbeaming afternoon
in Marla Conway's backyard
we make caves for our
Barbies
in the sandbox

Her brothers screech up on
their bannana seat bikes
and give us rides in the
alley

We scream with glee
adn I don't think of

mother at all


TURKEY STUFFING

Early Christmas morning
I awake
to an aluminum tree with
revolving rainbow lighting and
mom and dad

arguing

over how to make
the stuffing

Do they see my eyes aglow

or do they even care to know?