Spring Fling 2022

Allergy Seas-Nose

by Nazanin Ford

(Spring Fling Entry, 2022)

(Gif credit: Ashleigh Greene https://dribbble.com/shots/4581774-Alergy-Season)

Daddy’s nose is round and flat,

and granny’s nose is bendy,

My doggy’s nose wiggles

when the wind is windy.

 

Cousin’s nose is busy--

Always getting wiped.

Bunny’s nose is twitchy;

The neighbor’s nose leans right.

 

My betta fish has no nose

Just nostril holes for smellin’.

My uncle’s nose is full of hair

(but I’m not s’posed to tell him).

 

Every year it happens;

no one tells me why.

But suddenly we add to

our tissue box supply.

 

Every nose is runny,

from the oldest to the young.

Everyone is sniffling.

Smiley faces? Not a one!

 

Though every nose is different,

like every one of us,

one thing we’ve got in common:

spring has sprung on us.

Nazanin Ford