Not Barbie Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Not Barbie

Is made up as if doll
-colourful and alive
-runs as does an engine
-the-full-self-energised

She is sun in ocean
-dawn and dusk
-on short waves
-high-low-peaks in a phase

Her smile and concern
-work trend and motions
-to inhale and exhale
-talk of life in her chest

In fact, she is mountain
-used as cork for bottle
-gaseous and burning
-as are the volcanoes

Mother sick and needs help
-grade two is cancer of husband
-she must work, earn bread
-yet at helm of treads