Volume 7 | Issue 1 | Feb-March
2013 |
Caudate Memory
Christina Pacosz
The ballerina was a beautiful creature
suspended on her toes
in layers and layers
of frothy tulle
But the monkey mother
was so shameful
there was no costume
that could redeem her
She’d birthed a baby
with a tail
Such a scandal
A blessing the throwback
died the neighborhood
gossips whispered
on the lawn chairs
my mother had set up
outside
Christina Pacosz - Christina Pacosz has been writing and publishing prose and poetry for nearly half a century and has several books of poetry. Born and raised in Detroit, she has lived on both U.S. coasts, New York City, Alaska and southern Appalachia. For the past ten years she has been teaching urban Kansas City youth both sides of the state line; she and her husband of twenty years call Kansas City home.
Web: pacosz.blogspot.com/
