i would like to write a poem about boyhood / but it is not
something to be written / there is
nothing there except the knowledge /
that the ocean will always have
salt & wetness /
this is like boyhood / like the ocean / salt & wetness
always like crying & a bloody lip / this is the story
of how i used to cry so easily / & still easily cry / but
maybe this is why / i want so badly to write poems
about boyhood / because all love is like
this gaze staring into a cloud / how to explain
but to fold boyhood into a paper airplane / and then watch
it fly away / because
it is a brownie’s small favor
or an act of small spellcraft / anything
to forget / or more accurate to misremember
chains of dandelion crowns / in place of
reasons to seek shelter
Danielle Rose ' lives in Massachusetts. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in The Shallow Ends, Sundog Lit, Pidgeonholes, Barren Magazine & Glass Poetry.'
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