Just Write {48}

Asher passed me
saying
I can’t find my hair

I fight back a giggle
what do you mean, sweetie?

The hair for my guy!
he says it like it’s so
obvious.

Legos.

Oh yes,
the Lego hair.

I find it later
behind the bathroom door
so I think it’s poop
but it’s bright plastic
brown hair.

Asher’s hair is so
blonde
it’s white.

He’s not home
but I’ll tell him later.

This morning he stood
next to me
feeling the tubing
under his skin

I said,
do you know what that is?

No, mommy.

That’s the tube that goes up to your head
to your shunt
and it makes your body work right.

His little
growing less chubby
hand
rests there at the tube
under his skin
next to me
on his neck.

He looks deep in thought
and I tell him
that what’s under his skin
makes him have tools of power
like most people don’t have.

He quickly turns to walk away
saying
No I don’t
and for a moment my heart falls
until I remember
that one day he’ll know

I’ll make sure he knows.

He is
magic.

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