Spring Break afternoon and
my kids and I are at home at an odd time
of day for us and rather than do anything
we lay down on the big king size bed
cuddled around each other and fall asleep
we don’t do this anymore
they are 7 and 9
above such things as cuddling with their mother
on a tuesday afternoon
i wake up and see that they are nestled into
either side of me
I breathe in their heads of hair
i smell their days, their interests
instead of baby’s breath
instead of beginnings
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Margaret Elysia Garcia primarily writes fiction, essays and poetry from a remote corner of the Sierra Nevada. She's currently working on a non-fiction book about plus-sized modeling. She's also searching for a publisher for her new collection of stories? Mary of the Chance Encounters. Her short story collection Sad Girls & Other Stories out now on Solstice Literary Press. She blogs here and at Throwing Chanclas and Girl Body Pride. Is a contributor to Hip Mama Magazine. She writes the zine The Adventures of Sad Girl with her daughter, Paloma. She’s a three-time director of the national Listen to Your Mother Show in Plumas County (www.listentoyourmothershow.com). She has an alternative women’s music show Milkshake & Honey on Plumas Community Radio (www.kqny919.org).
