Singled out from
gray haired eggs.
She slid backward
down her mother’s
slide. Nursed the
westward breast
flat-sore.
In her highchair
over strained carrots
battle lines were drawn.
Spoons curved clockwise.
No elbow room for south
paw radicals. Assimilation
was the task at hand.
Right wing elders dressed
kindergarten limbs. Long
sleeved, cuffed blouses
muffled rubber band snap-pop.
Between composition lines
a rightward hand guides
tense cursive across
white
space.
Her left foot swings
slightly off the floor.
What had been undone
now an atrophied
remembrance.