by Toti O’Brien

On her birthday
she dons a platinum
wig. For how long
has she wished
to relinquish her
colorfulness?
Wear her hidden
paleness, revealing
not illness or fading
but a secret self
private yet
statuesque in its smallness
smooth like granite
lip-sealed or
whispering
only speaking
in tongues.

 

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