LALO
KIKIRIKI A Miracle: Portrait of She and
He
We are always
constantly
amazed
by tiny miracles
jewels
in the dust of days
-Alice Q. Palmer Wood
For thirty years she has managed
the monthly miracle
of "paying the bills"
dipping just enough from that money
river
to last
past the flipping of a calendar page.
He calls it "keeping the wolf
from the door"
and she wonders,
has he ever felt the fangs –
the drip of its hot saliva
slide into the pulse of his clavicle?
She feels the wolf's breath hot
on the nape of her neck
as she signs each check
with the hyphenate name he gave her
making the miracle happen
one more time
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