and altogether sophisticated
she wore pink cowboy boots
and ate peanut butter & chocolate
ice cream for supper
nobody questioned her appetite
or resolve to go it alone
one day venturing out into the leafless
and snow covered nature trail
gradually disappearing from sight
we prayed one day for her return
perhaps as a bright blue flower
or a frog mistaken as a prince
overnight she was all grown up
and altogether sophisticated
like she had always hoped to be
december two thousand twenty-one
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