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I celebrated my first birthday by selecting items from an assortment of artifacts that would determine my future profession. I chose a whistle and a pen—so the story goes…

Six Year Old Boy with Lost Tricycle Looking at a Mural on the Museum Wall

by Samantha Lê 

blue circles
like tricycle wheels
that go fast
faster
than air flies

the brown man cries
blue triangle
tears
he has to walk
through the popsicle trees
without feeling
wind on his face

___

First published in Quatrain.Fish, Spring 2017 (in different format)

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