Original Fire: Selected and New Poems

Best Friends in the First Grade

I’m brave.

I’m kind.

These are our powers.

Boys are coming!

How about we lead them into a trap and run?

We’re both the bravest twins.

Identicals.

Only you like blue.

And I like orange.

Remember you have to act like

me and I have to act like you?

Don’t kill the spider.

I forgot the crocodile hole!

We both can’t die.

Our special rope tells us what to do.

I got you. I won’t let you fall.

I’ll shoot the jump rope over to the other side.

The king is chasing.

The rainstorm has heard our plan. Oh,

they are following us. We will have no choice

but to marry now. You will be a daughter.

I will be the rainstorm’s wife.

But watch out.

The king has poisonous teeth.