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April 20 Ruffles in Cotton

Ruffles in Cotton

Momma made it.
         A cotton sunsuit
with blue and yellow flowers
and a fancy ruffled border.

Summer 1946, Age 5,
         on a playground
in Grass Valley CA.
Some stupid boys
laughed at my ruffles.
Girly, girly, girly!

I'd show them, I climbed
         the high wooden slide
and on the way down
a huge splinter impaled
the back of my hand,
but I did not, would not, cry.
I still carry the scar.
                   ~~Judi Van Gorder



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1946 parents dropped you off at the playground and came back later.
"April 20 Poem--fabric, fiber arts...."