Wednesday Night
by Holly Day

1. I’m washing my daughter’s hair and she tells me there’s a boy
2. She likes in school, he’s nine years old, he says he doesn’t like her
3. He told her best friend he doesn’t like her, she’s upset now and I
4. Don’t know if I should laugh or cry. I carefully

1. Rinse the shampoo out of her hair and resist the urge
2. To wrap my arms around her tiny, bony chest and hold her
3. Like I did when she was tiny, she wants me to give her some sort of
4. Womanly, adult advice, and I am not ready for this.