Divorced Parent’s Obstacle Course

Halloween eleven year old daughter farm Indian name white-bread

Suburban country wrap-around porch cotillion costume skeletons 

Ghostbuster sister tween romping with ghost little bro

Set the trap, don’t cross the streams, Friday drive for dinner

Saturday morn soccer game, stay the night and Sunday drive at the rise

Return at the dusk rings circling and the divorced parent’s obstacle course

Period blood pads in the trash can, don’t flush

Father removes to the red to the curb while she is away

Replacement supplies, books on bodies read four months before

Hat trick three goals slender speed athletic prowess grass on the field

Obama says playing like a girl means playing like a badass

Victory in a bonfire burning interstate asphalt wheels

Meditate on the Mississippi River bend in New Orleans

Audubon zoo howler monkeys and flamingos with bent elbow knees

Pink feathers and black and white fur climbing trees daring to fly

At night time stars flushing the sky identify constellations

Of stupid fights seven years ago threats on family is family in knots

Beds of catnip catfish jumping in the water’s mud

Signatures and best interest in hearts, nursing homes penniless, homeless

Dying in lost sense bedpans and stale arguments cake battered burden

Urine and excrement hand wiped generational payback progeny cycles

Stepfathers and dad has not taken a vacation in an octet of solar revolutions

Who to go with and where to tales of get away mom jaunts to Vale

Snow skiing and water slides downhill skies still peering where a man can be

Let a heart in slow like a grass stain smeared dirt flesh red smirks teeth shown

Gum tissue receding metal implants protruding as the zombie unveils Halloween

Late October 2015 grin that animatronic stance of how through hell hurdles

Thirty something on rope bridges ninja to forty leaping swinging guitar chords

Poetry factory podiums, yoga mats, dodgeball pirouettes, Italian horror films

World War P, of whose home, how, and when the moon shifts and do it again

Eleven thirty seven October thirty first approaching

End of daylight savings past two a.m. on All Souls Day balance beam