The World According to Poetry #10
Damaged Goods
By Stephanie Wood Miller © 2019
She thought of it as magic
The way he fixed her toys
Like a modern day Jesus
He restored Larry the Lion’s voice when he was struck dumb
Relit the red nose of Cavity Sam
And regenerated the broken legs of her statue horses
All with exquisite skill
She sometimes wished things would break
Just to conjure a new miracle
She knew her stoic father loved her
When he fixed her toys
Then she grew older
And learned it wasn’t magic
Just engineering
She wondered what she would have to break
To know he loved her now