Beheading Daisies

Published in West Trade Review as an online exclusive.

Baba shaves religiously
he believes he will
find discipline
under all that stubble

Mama is on the front lawn
beheading daisies
with a ride-on mower

I revert
rescue bumble bees from the skylight
refuse to play God
to reach a settlement between
the squirrel and the elm tree
the fox and the rabbits

At night I cry for everything
lost since.

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