Sally Jane

 

See Sally Jane

Smile, Smile, Smile

See Sally Jane smile

Born into the Great American Family

 

See Sally Jane

Look past

Into eyes

 brown

And

DEAD

Long gone in the pain

Of being

Daddy’s little girl

Who keeps secrets

Tucked into

Places

Spaces,

Colored red

Like tawdry trinkets

Tossed into a broken

Ballerina jewelry box

Lid jammed

down

TIGHT

on

This Pandora’s Box

Of

Ugliness

 

See Sally Jane

Smile, Smile, Smile

See Sally Jane smile

Dead in the Great American Tragedy

Reviews

[Adrian K. Smith]

I have always enjoyed any piece that refers to a smile that is not quite a smile. I believe we live in a world of plastic smiles. I enjoyed this work, sensing (or perhaps adding myself) a certain anger - that Sally Jane's smiles are not okay.