#napowrimo Day 2 - “Kiddle Me”
National Poetry Month Day 2! Today’s prompt is to use an obscure word from the “Haggard Hawks” Twitter account. I chose KIDDLE (v.): to embrace warmly, to caress:
Day 2 - KIDDLE ME
By Farah Lawal Harris
don’t kid me.
kiddle me.
embrace me warmly,
firmly hold so that the cold
squatting in my soul
finally heeds our decree to leave.
drop it like it’s hot.
hug me til i’m hot,
‘til fear ceases
and all my broken pieces
scattered on scorched earth
throughout the DMV
decompose and rebirth
a sight of me that is unseen;
‘til soul seeds
bloom from red clay earth,
overwinter, and grow true leaves.
love the true me,
not the perception projected
upon the person you see.
in front of me,
the mirror, unclean,
reflects a distorted image of Farah.
“Don’t kid me,” I request
as I apply my third coat of mascara.
“Yes, I will kiddle you,” replies
the woman in the the mirror.
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