mackerel aids your baby’s vision

mackerel aids your baby’s vision

fish glasses

never work,

they flip

and flap

and flop

and flounder.

the best thing,

you can do,

to help your baby,

and their capacity

to envision

vision,

is to make one,

with someone

who gives your heart

a stutter;

makes you

mutter,

blush

and flutter,

simply by freeing their hair

from a pony tail.

running,

their hands once

through blond air.

making you forget

to remember how to breathe out,

then and there:

an elongated second of grace

newly near;

newly.

alive.