Daughters – A Thread You Follow

Picture Exchange

A drawn rainbow
shimmers on the page,
orange, green and blue,
under a scribbled rain.

A snowman holds up 
its arms, wearing 
a black hat and purple 
scarf, smiling.

Pictures exchanged
by sisters, taped
to a page long ago,

Let’s Remake the World by Pedaling Faster

…after Gregory Orr

Let’s remake the world by pedaling faster
because the Dairy Queen can’t wait
at the end of our bicycle ride.
And the smiles speed brings
to the faces of my daughters
pulled along behind me
makes the circling madness
of my legs make sense.

Let’s “Go faster, Daddy!
so fast that our hair,
rushing behind us,
can’t catch us
and won’t get stuck
in the ice cream.”

Published: https://www.thewell.world/about/news/2020/04/08/mindful-poetry-virtual-gathering-2