Friday, June 12, 2026

Cowboys Don’t Wear Red Hats by Mary Kipps

 

Виктория Билан


Cowboys Don’t Wear Red Hats


The gifts you said we’d love.


My disappointment when

you gave the black one 

to my brother,

who was more interested

in baseball.


The gift you said I’d love,


pushed to the bottom of the toy box,

unable, there, to lend truth

to the lie

it was only pretend.


Now that I’m older,

red hats still look silly on me,

but I wore one yesterday

in the garden

while, three thousand miles away,

your family buried you.


© Mary Kipps



Mary Kipps

Mary Kipps enjoys composing in traditional forms as well as in free verse. A former Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have appeared regularly in journals and anthologies across the U.S. and abroad since 2005.

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