Menagerie
You fall asleep with your nose
between pages, face down
in the carpet, Blue Dog
keeping watch on the top bunk.
Tangerine sunlight hits your
glass animals, the shark
I glued back together
for you has his fin on backwards.
You are dreaming of things
too big for your tiny hands to hold.
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Grace Phillips is a 21-year-old writer and student from Danville, Indiana. She has been previously published in the Scarlet Leaf Review, Belle Ombre, the Haiku Journal, and has a short story forthcoming in the literary magazine Not One of Us. More of her work can be found on her website, gracewritesbooks.com
