Tooth Fairy

Bring me the gift of loss—
baby teeth, big girl teeth
this dead old molar, done

 
chewing down years, rootless,
separated from the body
surrendered to silk-sack departures—
 
mother, father, lovers, husbands, friends
this house, that job, the accumulations
and cost of having.
 
Teach me to put youth, beauty
fire, fury, gutting want
under the pillow.

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