Assimilation
By Alison Stone
People who speak Spanish all have outside jobs, my daughter announces
as the Mow 'n Blow crew descend from a truck to ravish our lawn. I read her a book about dark children dancing, playing drums with wrinkled elders, eating fried plantains. Bored, she grabs Dr. Seuss.
I'm not Latin Mommy.
I'm light pink like you.
If your family would call, I tell my husband or if you made rice and beans.
Maybe if we got somebody white to cut the grass.
She uses the brown crayon to shade him flanked by purple
flowers underneath a turquoise stripe of sky, hesitates before her own face
and then leaves it blank.
From March, 2015
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