Growing Up

Leaving dreams of you behind

By K.B. Silver Published about a year ago • 1 min read

I'll play Barbie you play Ken

Till we're in for dinner

The dolls melting on the hood

Melding with each other

All day becoming one with the Jeep

A liquid pool of plastic

Dripping through

Greasy inner workings of the vehicle

Onto grey concrete

Totaling the off-roader

Irony leaving her indelible mark

Reveling in the beauty

Of what we've become

Sometimes you only get

One short play date

In the blistering sun

One perfect interaction

Fueling an empty tank

To ride the coast in one go

Until the sun sets

The bags are unpacked

Parting evermore

K. B. Silver

K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.

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