Runaway Women

While you eat frozen blueberries,
I read you The Runaway Bunny,
by Margaret Wise Brown,
not once, but three times,
refilling your bowl to keep your attention.

Someday you will run from me
like I did from my mother
and she ran from hers,
so far away you will be fooled
into thinking that these worn,
ripped pages don’t apply to us.