Beth Bonness

choices #1

into the morning I walk
keeping my distance
what’s
over there?
possibilities

choices #2

into the morning I walk
keeping my distance
what’s
over there?
squint hard possibilities

why do we rush into action?

send this to her now!
why not a different her?
or him?
or them?
next week
or never

what’s the urgency?
items checked off our list?

when i die I don’t think i’ll say what i’m most proud of is checking things off my lists

instead i
l..i.....n.......g....e.....r

over
the
possibles

like a teacher watching a classroom filled with eager little three year-olds waving their pudgy fingers

BUR-STING

pick me!
pick me!

oh PLEASE, pick me!

over there
in the back
amongst the shadows

a toddler doodles
on a brown paper bag
with a purple crayon

her family of purple stick figures
with a giant purple sun overhead

what’s happening in the world inside her head?