Tag: doll

ah, matryoshka
how perfect your round face
how full your figure
no one would know
anything is wrong
as long as you
keep your back straight

your chiropractor must be very good

but slip out of alignment for just
one
second
and the jig is up

everyone can see that you’ve been
cut in half
severed at the waist

what were they trying to discard–
the upper half?
or the bottom?

and when you split open
what will we find?
your inner child?
your trauma body?
or have you burned through those
with therapy
and repression
and now your shell is just that?

stare at the clouds at sunset
watch the color drain
the threat and promise of night is fulfilled