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Yellow Flower

Are you a girl

or a boy?

my nephew would ask me,

puzzled.

I’d smile and try not to answer

for as long as I could.

But he was so persistent, so

needy for reassurance.

My nephew is secure in his boyhood;

no questions, no blurriness

in his mind. He, him,

boy things, boy clothes

and books.

But me? An enigma, Continue reading “Poem, Writing & Art by Alix Hyde” →