The little girl in me refuses
To go to bed
She won’t put on her sensible
Sweater
Or even a pair of pants
She wants to wear her party clothes
Or maybe she’s not a little girl at all
But a preteen getting into all the
Sparkling dark things
Square-jawed short-nosed blond cheetah people.
Cute cat guys with fair skin and square chins
who might stretch out
on a scratching-post type couch displaying paw hands,
straight-tooth grins and curvy bicep arms.
Soft messy spikes of champagne hair.
Adriana DiGennaro member of the Academy of American Poets and the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA), Adriana DiGennaro is a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont where she studied literature and creative writing. Her second book of poetry, Acts of Contrition, was published in May 2007 by Windstorm Creative.