FALL/ WINTER 2014

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Wayne Mennecke

JAM CARROTS

Another hurricane brews
and this one
is named after my daughter

who cyclones
around the house

carrying stuffed animals
and rubber ducks
in a life raft wicker basket.

Her bedroom
carpet is her atlas,
the kitchen

warm
equatorial
and touristy. 

She visits
squeals
leaves
and repeats.
All afternoon

this home spins
on its axis
switching poles abruptly
as when the lawn,
flattop and green

is overrun by darkness-
a starling flock
shrieking panic then

gone;
their flight seizes my
daughter until she

two going on three-
discovers

gleefully

her carrot slices
taste infinitely better

swirled
in raspberry jam.


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