Poem: Innocence

INNOCENCE
Diane Dolphin 

You really little girled me,

freckled my face and bespectacled me,

shooed big people worries out of me.

With you I wore green space boots

and carried my days in a froggy face lunchbox.

I colored your mornings yellow,

sprinkled pink candy hearts in your coffee jar.

You wrestled fudge jumbles from my hand

to save until after a squash and peas dinner.

In darkness you held me,

two velvet-wrapped spoons

I listened to the heart sounds in my ears,

wondering how those sounds were made,

believing that beauty meant fireflies blinking

in dill-smelling pickle jars.

"Innocence" will appear soon in my new origami poetry book, Communion, through the Origami Poems Project. http://www.origamipoems.com/ 

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