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I.
She hovers as a vacuum
Of the same name
Growls and shakes the crumbs
From carpet’s branches
As if the roar of paper shreds,
Dirt particles and plastic pieces
Could conceal those prying glances
Over shoulder
And onto his creation of
Lines with reds, yellows as dancing partners
Two-stepping across
Connect-the-dot paper
II.
At breakfast
The grip of a spoon in white fisted hands
And clumsy transfer from carton to glass
Is subject to critique
From crimson lips, parting prettily
Though the perfumed words
Act as pilfered ideas from
Parenting magazines
His porcelain façade
Fades white
Feeling like rings of water along red checkered lines
Seeking a larger body to hide in
III.
Smoke haloes form around his head
While horizontal strips of dawn
Break over scruffy hair
Through Martha Stewart blinds
And the sun shines from
The lighted end of addiction
She checks the oven
As her self-timer goes off
The shrill screech
Rings clear in the clouded fog
Of mind and pastel kitchen
Reminded of a too familiar voice
All her own
IV.
A conference full of confrontation
Spotlights years of sculpting
This marble boy
Into a concrete man
With faults too similar
Suddenly,
Realization hits
In his glaring eyes
The chisel fell from her grip
Years ago
V.
Perfect piercings
Wait for reason to come
Her pearls
His snake bites
Wait.
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