mom
I do not remember you.
Maybe we where two skeletons
living in an empty room
with the most beautiful hair
and never brushing it and it grew two feet a day
With your fingers like twigs
we cut it every morning and every night
it lined the floor of our room, wild and soft
black and red ropes
And maybe, I lived inside you, peaking out behind your ribs
feet curled on your pelvis
because I was small,
and you where always big.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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