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daffodil eleven, age 6
this is where i found it
the wildness in childness
the springing up of youth
the ever-naive brain
left answerless
this is where i found it
in these pages
in big-print little-print
old notebooks
wordsdrawingsdrawingswords
repetition
instruction
this is where i found my
wildness in childness
in my schooling
in the sausage factories where i
emerged flat & unflavored
not like the others
not like they wanted
this is where i found it
what i thought was lost
& i press my fingers to the ink
wish it would absorb back into my bloodstream
give me a taste of wildness
in my not-so-childness
