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Paper Eggs and Salt

October 11, 2013 by Kenneth Hart

Paper Eggs and Salt

 

After we cut out paper eggs,

Hazel said, “Each one needs an animal and a color.”

I said, “Sometimes when we put colors together we make new ones.”

She tilted her head to the side, “Don’t be silly, Baba.”

I felt the jolt of being told that before.

It hadn’t felt quite as pleasurable then.

Maybe years teach you to embrace silliness.

She concentrated because she knew about scissors now.

I watched and felt a protective urge each time an angle presented danger

 

When we made lunch, she told me that her noodles needed salt.

The she said, “Don’t tell my mom that I used the salt.”

“Why?”

“She might get mad.”

“Why?’

“Just don’t say anything, Baba.”

I wondered about secrets and the conspiracy of whispers

In a stage of infancy.

My daughter came home and Hazel said,

“Mommy, I used the salt.”

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When I come apart

October 10, 2013 by Kenneth Hart

When I come apart, some people will say

Those dreams were foolish anyway

When I come apart, I’ll leave a trace

Like the end of a line that time will erase

 

Some doors of perception close slowly

And others are slammed

Some are propped open,

Some come off their hinges

 

If you come apart, I wonder what you feel.

When you come apart, do you become less real?

You come apart in fragments that try to adhere

Then maybe you just disappear

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