A Better Rebel
He demands
we breach boundries
beyond the call-out.
To remain present
in the conversation,
he prompts anyone
who has felt this disorder
to come forward.
He looks directly at me,
though I am in
my own dimension.
Brave family groups
don’t disclose
any regrets.
Only one frame
reveals empty boards;
no one is prepared to
put their hands up to that.
You select the twizzle hat;
magical red hovers
above your damp shirt.
Karen Little trained as a dancer at London Contemporary Dance School, and as a sculptor at Camberwell School of Art, London. She has performed and exhibited internationally. She has regularly read her work at poetry events during the past three years, and her poems have recently been published in Best of Manchester Poets, an anthology, Volume 3, East Jasmine Review, Bunbury Magazine and Otter Magazine.
Cover photo: Naomi https://www.flickr.com/people/mariko1/