#6 for National Poetry Month - first draft offering - On Nina's climbing stairs

On Nina’s climbing stairs

The little one is climbing

stairs. Today   for the first time

I call her strong girl    I call

her young homie    I do not

call her pretty   or even

beautiful          I call

to her from imagined conversations

in our future     In these reasonings

she is saving me   again.  She is

refusing to let me be

anything but my best strongest unkillable

self.      The young homie’s gaze

doesn’t waver     she questions

me with the resolve of a prosecutor

She will hold me guilty for anything less

than refusing to die      every day

she comes to the well with me.

She bids me      drink father   live

The little one is climbing stairs

today               for the first

time


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