Love the juxtaposition against the wheelchair in stanza 1

When I was nine,
Mom and I bicycled to a carnival
on the boardwalk at Atlantic City.
My handlebar streamers
fluttered as we pedaled.
I knocked over a cloth clown
with a baseball and won a stuffed animal.
I gave the prize to Mom.
A Collage of My Mother
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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May 1, 2024
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Love the juxtaposition against the wheelchair in stanza 1
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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