“Hela” paper collage by Marilyn Ackerman.
Inspiration piece for poem by Channie Greenberg
Hela
By © KJ Hannah Greenberg
Response
Hela has birds for brains.
Penguins, really. They sit
Upon her noggin, squawk
At cats, devour raw fishes.
Except when her niece,
Estelle, makes origami
From the Sunday news,
Last week’s edition.
So much folding,
Fussing, bustling,
Creasing, pleating,
Corrugating culls
Auntie’s response, her tears
Over: obituaries, women’s
Pages listing besties’ divorces,
Babies born to everyone else.
No drink of fashion fades,
Does erase pain. Exclusion
Persists like a proud avenue,
She parades across leftovers
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