A careless girl is warm and cool like cornflower blue
filling the tub with a sweat-heavy heart
Where home sweet home is
sweet and sour
as a purse full of stolen sauce packets
And you’re a tidy list of pleasant tasks,
assembled with the discreet love
of a wet finger taming a curl.
(Count one by one) each
toe a flower petal floating
on the surface
(One joy at a time) four
wet feet on a wet tile floor is every day
a reminder to be good
And like water realizing light,
I know you flicker even when my eyes are closed