L.D. Blevins

BACK  |  CONTENTS  |  NEXT

Webbed Toe

I was born with a webbed toe.
Doc offered to cut it but Mom said no.
“To do that to my newborn son,
when it’s purely cosmetic and needn’t be done,
would surely break this mother’s heart.
Now how soon can the circumcision start?”

L.D. Blevins is a writer from Rowan County, Kentucky. He lives in a tiny house with a not-so-tiny cat.