This week our son turns ten
everything is breaking records
our hearts in the guinness books
yours, mine and we make it look
easy
easy they say
like we planned all this
like we knew what we were doing
like we’d read it all in the books
instead of in the stars
the stars
star crossed and star gazed
and it’s been ten years
since we formed this alliance
our witness now stares up at us
thinks us weird, foreign, old
can’t grasp how his parents
became one united force
in what he thinks must be
against him
but for me we are easy to imagine
there is no ‘work’ involved,
no buzz words or buzz kill
it is simply that i still hang on your words
and forgive me mine
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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).
