Sometimes
I wonder about Dorothy’s socks, dangling on a clothesline below a 1939 sky before the wind blew and planted them somewhere in Oz.
I whistle to bluebirds along a path paved with yellow bricks,
startle at shoes buried under flying houses crashed next to a road that actually has nothing to do with Emerald Cities or you and me together
because I’ve thought about this before you know…with someone else under a different rainbow,
thought about conventional words like hello and goodbye and how people get stuck together in clauses and how easy it is for paper to rip ” I love you” into packing peanuts
shoved by flying monkeys into a burlap knapsack, dumped under that next step I’m about to take .
Just below the hem of my dress, there are stitches holding lace in place, quivering above a pair of red shoes
gasping, grasping for air, telling the folds of my skirt they’ve forgotten how to breathe
for a moment
swaying
inhaling
lifting
and then another moment
up,
over,
beyond …
I feel like I’ve been on a journey to the next step…..to where I wonder?0
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Quite the process huh ?
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