hanabiko
sweet mother—
baby-made
finger paint display
carted out, presented whole
to mommy made
newspaper clippings.
fuzzy microphones jutted out
into the menagerie
but baby whimpers sound like song
and mommy made dialects.
eyes carved on window panes,
divisive—
isolated.
they dwell at home on concrete walls
instead of pastures that they’re made in—
supposed to be: baby-made, baby arboretum
but mommy made award shows
trophies
and she will not concede them.
she will not concede them.
mommy made you
mommy::hero
fingers too big for speaking
mommy says them,
mommy sees them.
lynched on a tripod,
gored by the limelight,
eating whole and eaten raw:
digestible is the spectacle.
and, when you’re gnawed completely,
totally to the bone,
they’ll raise your skull on telecasts,
present you to the home
you knew
perhaps not what you wanted;
smartest chimp to ever live,
to ever be forgotten.
Giulyana Gamero is a senior communication major at SUNY Geneseo and the former Youth Poet for the city of Rockford. She loves to take on artistic projects in any medium, such as 89.3 WGSU’s Sunflower Story Hour, a paranormal audio drama. Her writing has appeared in Gandy Dancer issue 13.1, Young American Poetry Digest, The Lamron, and in Carnegie Hall’s Traveling the Spaceways. Her visual art has appeared at the Rockford Art Museum and Bridgeport Art Center.