Wax Lips

Written by Brian Yapko. Posted in Featured, Poetry.

shirtlesss

seven maybe eight

swigging

lemonade maybe coke

climbing

a maple maybe a jungle jim

eating

mud maybe pez

bawling

my room maybe the basement

parents

shouting maybe screaming

angry

staying together maybe not

hiding

the bed maybe the closet

grown up

forgiving maybe not

wishing

i could again view the world

barefoot,

frog in my pocket

bactine on my knee

chewing on wax lips

Brian Yapko is a lawyer who writes poems, a number of which have been published. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.