FOUR

 

did you know the girls who starved were looking for acceptance
not death?

some one should have told me then
that that’s how you find love.
i would have gone out looking.

 

but now my belly’s full–
cashew butter sandwiches and chocolate covered strawberries.

cecelia returns and the house is dreaming once again.
velvet underground coursing through our veins.

 

her tummy’s swollen with love
(child)
and he is gone.