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Read the Introduction Recent Poetry The Trajectory of Her Legs The Sonogram Technician The Bath Quickening A Birthday in the Making Guitar Lessons Rage $1,000 down The Mystery of Footprints Suburbia Archives Poetry Archives E-zine Don't have time to check for updates? Let us come to you! Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe to the Literary Mama E-zine. Literary Mama About Us Submissions Contact Privacy Policy Literary Mama Bookshop Literary Mama Gear Powered by Movable Type 3.16	Poetry « The Mystery of Footprints \| Back to Poetry \| Rage » $1,000 down by Madelyn Rosenberg The steamer couldn't vanquish the chocolate Or blackberry jam Or muddy prints from a size six shoe. If only we'd known We wouldn't have bothered Erasing the pencil marks on the doorframe. A year of your life Wiped out by one small stub of pink rubber For a rental deposit We would never get back. Madelyn Rosenberg now owns a portable growth chart. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children. Her writing has appeared in Parenting, The Rough Guides Book of Playlists, LadyBug (for kids), and Other Voices (not for kids).