Day 3

Day 3: something out of paper




Dolls

Those paper clothes
punched out of magazines
had little tabs that bent
around the cardstock people.
Hats and coats and galoshes
from last season
were kept in an envelope
out of my brothers' sight.
I don't remember
what I used to pretend
as I dressed and redressed
those smiling forms.
I found them again last year
somewhere in my closet
next to Kiddles and Barbies
and G.I. Joes.