“I took a Rorschach test”* she lamented *“Though I admit, it was accidental A bouquet of Cherry smears splotched on toilet-paper Through liquid lines and violent streaks Miraging shards of an eight month Terra-cotta I saw a dishwater boy Sifting dirt in a garden He hid among the tomato vines, smiling behind strawberry stains Oddly reminiscent of that picture I stole from your mother’s house I turned the paper square in my hands Another child A young-eyed girl drowning in a pair of peacock heels And a floral patterned muumuu Involuntarily closing her left eye when a laugh turns to tears You've always said you love that about me Raw images framed in a sharpie-circled day It’s permanence displayed on the kitchen calendar A mind’s-eye mosaic that shattered when I felt it around my insides A searing grip, and gravity wins The porcelain bowl is filling now Like a bloodroot squeezed from toe to crown None of my tears could wash away any of the red And all the sirens came But the tiny shoes stayed wrapped in tissue paper And some mornings, not many but some Before the bluish tint of pre-morning dawn When the slivers of my thought wake me I feel that invisible hand Squeezing a butterfly inside my stomach"