At Meghan’s Kindergarten
Published in Latchkey Lyricality, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2016
© Catherine M Thompson
Miss Fish
What a dish!
With rigid back
and rigid ways
All matching skirts and sweaters
in polite pastels
and nylon blouses as well
with self-tie collars
and demure pleats
Picture perfect
In control
Frightened of her five-year-olds
Line them up
in a row
Tell them what they need to know
Nothing out of place