Adventurous
five year old
brown girl

accompanied
by loyal
chihuahua

run wild
on sidewalk
pavement

in search
of the kind
of adventures

that involve
chasing birds,
and picking

rocks twigs,
bottle caps.
for their garden

under
small tree.
near rosebush

that her
mother and
grandmother

planted
an eternity
ago

in child
and puppy
time.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.