Over The Phone
of M.G.S.

she would, she could laugh in my ear
forcefully enough to make eardrum,
heart and other parts flutter
made of the wind, able to tear paper
able to produce a tear as well as a smile

was once tissue paper,
easy to see through, to blow through
so substantive now, so complex now
instead of impacted upon
it is she doing the impacting
causing whom she encounters to tremble
who was a girl, was my girl
is a woman now


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
5:17 a.m. 10/09/07