Hope Coulter is a Pushcart Prize nominated novelist and poet whose work has appeared in journals such as Spoon River Poetry Review, New Delta Review, and Rattle (forthcoming). She lives in Little Rock and teaches creative writing at Hendrix College in Conway AR. Visit her website.
Brushing the Ponytail
By Hope Coulter
By Hope Coulter
The news had been full of it–
some cosmic dirtball bowling by
once every 2,380 years.
Brushing my eight-year-old’s hair
I heard her say,
“I know very few people
who’ll see that comet
next time around.”
The hairbrush hovered,
dug in for another stroke.
“Actually,” she added,
“none.”
The elastic band in my teeth
kept me from having to speak.
Cute!