Paper Doll Chorus Lines

In addition to Egypt and Syria, turning anywhere in the world today, you’re liable to find…

Paper Doll Chorus Lines
                         by Odin Roark

Sun and wind
Imagination’s puppeteer
Turn and twist cutout paper dolls
Strung across blown out window casements
Creating daily enchantment amidst the smoke

How precious
These afternoons
As scissors assist small fingers prepare
The matinée performance
Cutting daily “stay in your homes” flyers
Into dancing friends

Soon
Say the mothers
The war stage
Will be replaced by
Velvet curtained openings
Where make-believe hope
Will find flesh and blood still intact
Renewed hearts respecting
Freedom
Happiness

Soon

Reviews

[Kelly Scheppers]

Your title snared me, and I was delighted by the poem I found. I could almost feel the relativity of "scissors assisting small fingers"..."how precious these afternoons."

Nice to meet you, Odin!