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Baby feet on grass — Photo by Jessica Shaevitz on Unsplash

Gam said you’ll talk
someday, you’ll tell your own hi girl, 

hi spoon, my ear said

where is your applesauce

a thumb knows
bye, tell the door for the step 

hi, that lift-foot

Gam’s sheeny dress setting me on the grass 

blades bounce under my legs

squirrels chuckle with each what-I-want

Daneen Wardrop

’s most recent books include Life as It (Ashland Poetry Press, 2016), Cyclorama (Fordham University Press, 2015), Civil War Nurse Narratives (University of Iowa Press, 2015), and Crossings in Text and Textile (University Press of New England, 2015, coedited with Katherine Joslin). Life as It received the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, FIELD, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions online, New American Writing, and Notre Dame Review.

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