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  • Toes

    Please don’t stick your cold nose in my toes
    Around my toes I wear nice warm
    clothes
    Not a furry little doggy nose
    Trying to sniff and lick my pinky toes

    My socks are to stay on my chilly feet
    Not as chew toys for those sharp little
    teeth
    Socks are made to remain discreet
    They are not treats I wear on my feet

    That hat you have hidden under Dad’s
    chair
    Is Grandpa’s hat that covers his hair
    It’s not your round chewy toy hiding
    there
    Go get that hat from beneath that chair

    Mother’s scarf from India it came
    She doubts she’ll ever go back again
    Tearing it up is such a foolish game
    Still you grabbed it and after you she
    came

    Come here my little rapscallion puppy
    This blanket displaying a bright orange guppy
    Is yours now from me all warm and
    lumpy
    I will always be happiest with my new puppy

  • Why Can’t You Hear Me?

    Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

    You can’t hear me

    I am speaking beneath your voice

    droning on and on

    a muddle of senseless prattle

    You know I am speaking

    You know I can hear you

    You do not have to shout

    and stomp about like a circus clown

    I am listening to you

    I can understand you

    I remain stoically silent

    after so many years

    you notice my muteness

    Your hands on my shoulders

    wanting me to speak to you

    I can not speak to you

    speechlessness arrests my voice

    invisible words of loneliness and despair

    spill from my throat but you can not hear

    My utterances remain without form

    See my words drowning in sorrow

    Hear my words ravaged by pain

    Feel my words buried in heartache

    Heed words mired in rhetorical anger

    Why can’t you hear me?