Her tenacious curiosity
finds an electrical socket
blackens her delicate fingertips.
At seven, her teacher calls to say —
she’s stolen Fruit Roll-Ups
from a classmate’s backpack.
My time-out sanctions create
a cackling crescendo:
Brenda Sciberras is a Winnipeg writer who has been published in several Canadian literary journals as well in the anthology Across Sections: New Manitoba Writing (Manitoba Writer’s Guild, 2007). Her work is also forthcoming in the anthology I Found It at the Movies, which will be published by Guernica Editions in fall 2014. Her first poetry collection, Magpie Days, will be launched by Turnstone Press also in the fall.
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