My Pics

Kris Bell, Nashville TN, July 2007

What i am

i see through walls
walk on top of them
grow little flowers all over
and then break down the walls
i am seven years old
dress teddy bears as princesses
wear pink high heels
and steal mom’s makeup
i am five years old
fight with dragons
build lego skyscrapers
and fly with birds
i am a single streetlight
at the corner of the corn field
marking where civilization
meets america
i am unstructured and out there
inside and uncomfortable
proposing a turn
not caring whether you follow
can you guess?

©bonnie pignatiello leer
(Published in the Wilderness House Literary Review, Jan 2008)

One Streetlight

one streetlight
one light
for empty corn field
lone car
rabbits
mice
opossums
live there

rusty old muffler
bits of blown tires
in the gravel

a light
in my eyes
as I drive past
then darkness
with just headlights to guide me

©bonnie pignatiello leer