Literature
In Proud Pink Letters
When I was six or seven,
(Who can remember their age?)
I was enrolled in an art class
With other kids that age.
We were painting from a photograph
A dog and cat at rest in a field of flowers
And Crayola-green grass.
When my parents came together
To pick me up (they were married then),
I showed them my project, beaming:
Look, look what I made,
And their smiles said they were proud.
“It’s missing something,” said Dad,
“You need a signature.”
“You need to write your name,” said Mom,
And interpreting them as I did,
I took the broadest brush,
And in proud pink letters wrote
“Paula” with a capi