Poem Beginning With

an image your daughter in the backyard drawing in the dirt with a stick her blonde hair held in pigtails by two pink bows the trees leaning because of the wind she’s drawing a circle no  an O the beginning of a word Oval? Only? One? nothing too big she doesn’t spell well yet the O in the word poem? no  that’s too easy it’s too easy and you’ve done it before she’s drawing her face she’s drawing your face and the trees are leaning because of the wind no  there are no trees there is no wind and she shields her face from the sun she’s drawing the sun she’s drawing the Earth she’s drawing the Earth’s orbit around the sun does she know the Earth is an oval as it orbits the sun? will she learn? of course she’ll learn you’ll show her she’ll finish her drawing the drawing of the Earth the O the oval the drawing of her face your face no  she wants a circle she’ll rub out what she’s done it hurts her that it’s not a circle like the sun she’ll use her foot her small blue shoe blue like the Earth the circling oval Earth she’ll begin again