I peel my teeth each time
I think how white you make my day
even though at times you
wring my ego dry as my grandmother did
the shirts she took in to wash and press
sweating before the cookstove
as her teawater boiled behind and I
young and easily impressed
watched her run her iron
back and forth over a damp sleeve
sending its wrinkles to oblivion
as you flatten an immoderate crease
or careless fold in my
chaotically rumpled me-ness
Jim Culleny; August 26, 2009
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Peel my teeth: Mexican idiom for “smile”
To have a white day: Arabic idiom for having a good day
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