Little Girl
by A. A. Parr
for Tiffany York
(with a nod to Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook for Sylvia’s Mother)

I dismantle and
reconstruct your
entire childhood
in less than 
280 characters, 
without thought for 
where it might take you 
but
you say
you love it,
like you say
your father used to 
love you before.

And though I don’t know
the details
I think I might know 
something 
about
that part of you 
that pressed your body 
up against
hot leather vintage seats
with windows rolled down, 
all the way,
and the words
of the song 
on his car stereo
playi...

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