licking her teeth for crater and cove
    
accounting for one well positioned pelvis
a twenty-four count atlas  
axis
dorsal
lumbar
sacrum
coccyx
no longer caught by the spoils of war and routine liberated by natural selection
 
equates funny math
  
 
what is kitty dreaming about
?
boat rides down the mississippi or her face across the teleprompter.
  ohio
nile
ganges
tigris
euphrates
without much reluctance
she gladly forfeits those last trailing days of the roman empire
 
   
kitty takes snapshots
 
preemptive nostalgia
 
She projects the images across various monuments and tombstones
munch
scheile
mahler
freud
klimt
 
once or twice a passer-by might fall in the way
a
twenty-six
count
all the more smiles for kitty
all the more
 teeth to show
all the more terrain for them to cradle and crawl
Despite her sunken eyes dry skin      

clinique

revlon

mary-kay

lancome
  
kitty will not grow up like   mother