"small world"

Full lives,

small world;

flower eyes

and a string of pearls-

who is this Earth,

who is this girl?

Twenty years

and all but the first

full of misery,

nowhere to turn-

small world,

done girl;

do the trees rock

and does the ice break,

do the birds chirp

and do the people sway?

Candles at night

and sun in the day,

small world,

grown girl.