Crystal Ball

© Elizabeth Larrabee

When I sat on the beach

staring at the Salem shore

my adolescent imagination

never came near

to figmentizing

the bundle of twin joys

I'd be toting on each hip

when I was thirty one,

with a toddling screamer

tugging at my skirt,

a four-year-old teaser

yanking down the

screamer's diaper

and a little lady of seven

posed at the kitchen sink

washing dishes

as if it were all

perfectly

normal.

© Elizabeth Larrabee

Earliest Recall | Lady Slippers | How Poor Were We? | Free Food

The Smaller The Bigger | Mud Flats | Speaking of Smells | Random Pieces

Growing Up the Hard Way  | No Bogey Man | Green Apples | Poor Buster

Up and Down | True Friends | Moving | Rosie's Hangout | Crystal Ball

You weren't so Hot After All | Haunts | On Acting the Way You Feel | Amen

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