Polka dotted dress fit tightly across full hips with a ribbon pulled firm to shape her frame. A mirror and a husband reflect the white betweens of violets and yellows
and blues trapped in circle-from, spinning frozen over washer-friendly cotton. And blonde hair trimmed above the ear and pearl earrings to match the whites of
cold skin and eyes. With black flats and baby-toes underneath painted pink that would curl when her groom came in bed. But a sadness in her chest when she had taken off the
dress and after the dinner-party with ham fresh and red wines and business friends of the man (her husband). A sadness searing deep within her, in bed, after her husband came
and her feet didn't curlΒ Β and he would roll over and she would be awake. Insomnia is when you wake reoccurring in the night (the husband would say.) But she
wouldn't ever sleep, for months, she covered the black bags under the blues in her eyes with makeup from macy's while the husband went to the firm in a new
cadillac and came home every week to steak or ham fresh without noticing the lines beneath her eyes. Every sunday she would cook more food for the business
partners and cover more bags and black sags with more makeup until macy's changed their inventory so she drove father away to find more flesh-colored coverup.