Y Who knew we’d forget the sound of a schoolbell ring before the day was even done.
G And my elementary school classmates stopped yelling No pictures! at parents and strangers
I I woke up today and learned I’m no longer the leading expert on my mother’s smile
D Like a sapling redwood mocked by the stars, I grow an inch and feel two smaller.
O A spilled year asks the next, “Are we all grown up yet?” like an onion in a field of daisies
R Collected seasons like a too-small pail gathering the fallen droplets of a too-big sky.
P I grew up accidentally and all at once for twenty years with a few pockets of loose days,
To be read from the bottom up
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