12.03.14 - 5:59 p.m.

the trap, and it
is bear caliber,
is
maybe
not becoming one of those
who absorbs her children's
dreams, accomplishments, futures
assimilates them as in symbiosis
until the symbiotic turns parasitic and
your unfulfilled wishes sit hollow on a
dusty sill in the shadow of thrift store bound
trophies.