How to Make a Man
Angela Feeherty
Knead with the knuckles then
open the palm and press.
Turn the wad of flour and dye
close to your eye and
carefully in your hand,
push with your thumbs
from flat pizza to umbrella
and then pull the sides
like the sheets of your bed
at night until they converge
to a head just like yours.
Kneel over a fingerprinted
body of red on the floor
in the sunlit space between
the dark blind stripes
squishing the two parts until
the light is filled with life.
Brush your curls back
to admire what you've made,
then with a smile in your
dream-filled mind
go outside to play.
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