Weekly encouragements to help you express yourself.

Warm Lights

By Mara Cavanaugh

The Teletubbies website appears.
“Hey! I know them!”
I feel my ears against the bouncy, cute, curly pigtails.

Comfortable in my father's lap, I munch on chocolate ice cream.

I start to climb onto the desk.
Something was watching us.

He tries to draw my attention back to them.
“Look it's... Tinky-Winky!”
It is Tinky-Winky and Laa Laa and...

The big circle glass in a square black box blinks.

I can't see.

A head pokes out, a stranger looks at us, upset.

Much later I was told it was a failed Sears photo shoot.

A response to the National Poetry Month prompt

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