Day after all
the red
and green—unseasonably
warm—
sheen of pink
and white
and yellow neopreen
winking
timid—but
characterisitcally up
at—keen
glint of men hiking
past her suantering
mom—and each of her
wobbly knees knocking
all the
kinks
from their—shiny new
Hello
Kitty
roller skates.