March came & tadpoles laid eggs in your blood
pond muck & algae--green nets in your blood

your father overflows from a photo--
depression-- gaping gill-less in his blood 

blue-vein filter throb: you cleaned the fish tank
tetras drowning from the salt in your blood

when he feeds you, bite off his thick fingers 
they will say "love of figs" was in your blood 

hula-hoop-haloed-- you fracture rainbow
pastel chalk in the driveway: your dry blood 

syringe siphoned your magenta girl blood
his coast-hanger fingernails in your blood