Recollections

There once was a girl
I remember a girl
who might have been someone
who used to be me

There once was a girl
I remember a girl
who licked her big toe
for a taste of the sea

There once was a girl
I remember a girl
who roared like a dinosaur
and balanced on roots

There once was a girl
I remember a girl
who loved her jean cap
and her worn muddy shoes

who hummed ‘fa-la-la-la’ everywhere she would go,
who dreamt about dragons out every window,
who climbed where few dared, hated combing her hair,
and loved feathers and rocks and the moon and the trees

There once was a girl
I remember a girl
who quietly puzzled, 
who wrote poetry

There once was a girl
I remember a girl
who might have been someone
who used to be me

Written entirely on January 2, 2023, on my 40th birthday.

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