American Girl

American Girl

The little girl carries a girl doll.
The girl doll carries a tinier girl doll.
All three are dressed alike, white dress,

little blue flowers, green leaves.
Brown hair to the shoulders, bangs
from eyebrow to eyebrow, a doorway

for the girls to look out from. Toys
of our toys, whose love or loneliness
made you. The parents copy themselves,

and once the little girl is there, they
copy her. Whose hands can fill yours.
Who does the world remind you of.