Little Palm

i

Pretend you are a potato

& hide in a sack

peek at the earth through a hole

while they are carrying you

from the garden to the cellar

In the end, hop out of the sack when no one is looking:

a very small boy.

ii

Mother keeps your baby hair

like marker of time:

so she can imagine you before and after.

iii

Childhood is falling into snow

what is falling

Snow, what falls?

Falling into snow falling into snow

Falling

Into snow

Falling falling into snow.

iv

When does childhood begin

and when does it end?

So small, this palm.