The Conundrum of Proportion
You try to force your arm into dolly’s dress
balance her hat like a pimple on your head,
crush her cardboard-box bed with your giant toddler
body, puzzled by further mysteries of perspective:
big or close; small or far away; the way your feelings
rear up huge as a tidal wave and threaten to drown
the world till reason is a whisper in a hurricane.
Beware adults who tell you to ‘keep it in proportion.’
They might also believe that ‘code red for humanity’
is small and far away.