The Headline
Walking with my daughter,
I found the paper
grounded in the gutter:
Study: Bagels linked
to increased risk
of lung cancer
Walking on, looking back
I watch the wind whip
the rag down the alley.
My daughter, all of 7, had a
bagel for lunch. Still, she
scampered up the avenue.
Dead ahead, plum trees,
exploding in purple, rustled
restlessly like the paper,
Never looking back, she
separated. Now, I would
worry about bagels, too.
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well woven:
beauty of parent&child/nature/nagged by bagel/cancer risk worry.
favorite lines:
grounded in the gutter
wind whip
the rag down the alley
rustled
restlessly like the paper