Suzanne Sunshower

Some home movies play

                                                    over

                                                             and over

in the mind.

Out-takes squeezed-off by the third-eye

linger long. Cuts like: a girl being shoved

(back into place)

beside the boy who always anticipated

(and jumped) before being told.

Don’t forget the antagonist mother...

in mid-snarl       always unhappy.

And then there’s that father...

always rushing                    out of frame

too safely busy to be caught up

in the depths of the madness.

But wait, there’s more –

here comes their dog with ulcers.

Suzanne Sunshower is a writer/artist from Detroit, recently relocated to a tiny camper in the big woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she is learning how to relax.