She lost three lovers in Texas
it is such a big state
full of tall hair,
women with trinket cars,
attorneys at law doing Dallas.
Everyone has two bulldozers
called arms.
.
The U.P. is home, frozen
with trees on top.
Birds trickle out of September
and all the love you have
you know you will need.
December is longer than
cars crashing.
.
In Texas,
flint stars
big as her pupils and
she shaved the right side of
all of her head.
On the U.P. that hair grew out.
She rattled borders of her mattress
until northern home frost
settled her down.
.
orphan poems 