Diane Mayr
“The Right Tool for the Job”
Response
Sister, the Fly That’s Never Near Walls, and Other Things We Are
By Shalini Rana
Inspiration piece
She’s a splash of red coat bobbing
on an ivory snow backdrop
Bold baby raspberry
Little scream with a hard touch
(always bending back book pages)
Never a fly on the wall, she smashes
white clouds under her feet
My dainty dose of disaster
There’s something vintage in our opposites—
like we were different together before
Me: a pillow waiting to catch sleep
Her: an accent wanting to be heard
But these days I’m old-hag big sister
and she, a winged preteen pest
I catch her with a flyswatter and cup
See, I know where she flits about
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