pink mona

The dogs only get scared when someone lets off leftover fireworks and they scurry across the wooden floors. I had a dream that Mona fell from the second floor of my grandfather’s old brick house. I caught her and saved her and her eyes were frozen pink but starting to thaw.

And if she could have talked like animals do in banned stories, she would have told me she respected me unlike the men in my life.

Her eyes were blue when she was born. I remember when I first lived here I found a little photocopied paper plaque that said Happy is this House or something like that.