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Training Wheels
April 2, 2019
I was five years old and my handlebars
Trailed pink ribbons.
I had training wheels but still,
I fell.
I remember the sprawl of limbs,
the smear of skin on sidewalk
The shredded pink knees.
I cried like a hurricane and my father
A placid summer sky
Peeled me from the cement.
I pedaled; I collapsed; I howled; I thundered
Through suburbia,
And my ribbons and my father
Trailed behind.
© Jed L., Oakley, UT
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