Saturday, September 26, 2009

A Forgotten Doll - Jessica Low

Miniature familiar hands of
tender, olive skin
ungracefully grasp
the plastic baby doll
to her little chest.

They twist
artificially shiny,
wax covered hair
with tiny fingertips.

Ireland,
a reissued Volkswagon,
old, new
never the same again.

"Would you like to
take your baby home?"

"My baby,"
she asserts and tosses her baby
to the ground.

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