I see lips
red and flaming
like cherry candy
China blue eyes
a coy smile
making boys rise-
He
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will make you
Fall
– Fast-
like a dead moth
Making
Rain
from pelting shards of glass,
tearing pretty parasols, cracking nails
severing limbs, shrinking- then
stretching hair
tugging too hard
Straining
Eyelids staring then blinding-
failing to see instruction
sewn into pockets
of scarlet ribbon
and drooping lace
Toy is fragile handle with care