Rattled

Rattled

The migrating part in that hair rattles me.

I swear it’s higher up the head than it was

and keep close watch on the weird wisps

he teases and combs over, covering what

Ivanka let fall was scalp surgery. I’m fairly

sure the ducktail strands of side and back

are not as long as they were, either. Does it 

take less adhesive now, to batten it all down?  

Less Executive Time to be ready to ignore

the press gaggle’s shouts about the immigrant 

child ripped from its mother’s breast as he 

passes to board the copter for Mar-a-Lago?

He holds the handrail, hurries up those steps

knowing how absurd he can look if the full wind

catches him, fans out all that’s left.  I think that

possibility, not the tightening investigation, may

still be what rattles him the most.

                                                    —Sef, 6/17/18